Age of Revolutions · SITE OF MEMORY · 1822

Chios massacre (1822)

On the Age of Revolutions map as “The Chios massacre”

Apr 1822 — Ottoman forces killed or enslaved most of the Greek population of prosperous Chios: tens of thousands of people. Delacroix’s painting carried the massacre into European parlors.

When: Apr 1822
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Age of Metternich (chapter 11 of Age of Revolutions)
Atlas: The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848

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Map showing Chios massacre (1822), site of memory in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848 — SITE OF MEMORY · THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1775–1848

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