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The University of Michigan Library has placed copies of these works online for educational and research purposes. For more information about using images from this exhibit please see the Rights Statement.

The War Before the War: World War I and the Treaty of Sèvres, 1830-1920

King Constantine and Venizelos Meet at the Vyroneia Railway Station (Hadji-Beilik) Serres Prefecture, during the Second Balkan War
The Literary Digest Liberty Map of New Europe

Ashes to Ashes: The Greco-Turkish War and the Burning of İzmir/Smyrna, 1919-1922

Greek infantry charge in river Ermos during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
Forgetting the Smyrna Fire

A Farewell to Arms: Ending the War and Negotiating the Treaty of Lausanne, 1922-1923

The Peace Conference Atlas : A Series of Maps to Illustrate Boundary & Other Questions under Consideration at the Peace Conference 1919

Being a Refugee Twice: The Struggles of Greek and Turkish Expatriates, 1923-1929

Izmir, After the Great Fire in 1922.
Orphans under care of American Near East Relief exercising at ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Athens In the background the Acropolis.

The Death of a Dream: Developing a Modern Greek Identity

Memory
Smyrna

“Citizen, Speak Turkish!”: The Turkish National Identity and the Legacy of Mustafa Kemal

Atatürk's Reforms
Nutuk Speech

The Legacies of the Greco-Turkish War

Francis Kelsey
Ataturk Quote

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