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Greek landing at Smyrna (1919)
On the WWI map as “Smyrna”
15 May 1919 — Greek troops land at Smyrna under Allied warships to claim western Anatolia. The partition of the Ottoman Empire helps ignite the Turkish War of Independence. Within months, the peacemakers discover that drawing a map is one thing; establishing their settlement on the ground is another.
When 15 May 1919 Type Turning point Chapter Treaty of Versailles (chapter 14 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · US Army: American Forces in Germany · Treaty of Versailles: Rhineland occupation
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain US Army Medical Department history; Moselle Valley from Luxembourg to Rhine, Trier and Koblenz. Boundary derived from treaty river and bridgehead provisions rather than an absent annual control polygon.. US government historical geographic evidence Versailles articles 428–432; Rhineland occupation and bridgeheads.. Historical treaty facts; original geographic reconstruction Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The displayed state is iss 19. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1919.1 · reconstruction: 1919–1923 · reconstruction: 1920–1921 · reconstruction: 1920–1923 · reconstruction: 1920–1935 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1916–1919 · vector: 1917–1919 · vector: 1917–1921 · vector: 1918–1919 · vector: 1918–1926 · vector: 1918–1938 · vector: 1919–1919 · vector: 1919–1921 · vector: 1919–1923 · vector: 1919–1937
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