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The mission of the Smyrna School District is to ensure that the students of the community are prepared as effectively and as efficiently as possible to become responsible and productive citizens possessing the knowledge, the problem-solving skills, and the positive attitudes necessary to successfully adapt to and function in an ever changing environment.

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Additionally, the Delaware Department of Justice has a School Ombudsman who can assist with bullying issues. The hotline number is 1-800-220-5414. The bullying resources located on this site can assist students, parents, and school personnel to better understand processes and programs to effectively address the issue of bullying within the school environment.

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Top 10 Best Smyrna, GA Public Schools (2022-23)

For the 2022-23 school year, there are 14 public schools serving 12,935 students in Smyrna, GA (there are 10 private schools, serving 2,123 private students). 86% of all K-12 students in Smyrna, GA are educated in public schools compared to the GA state average of 92%. Smyrna has one of the highest concentrations of top ranked public schools in Georgia.

The top ranked public schools in Smyrna, GA are King Springs Elementary School, Teasley Elementary School and Nickajack Elementary School. Overall testing rank is based on a school’s combined math and reading proficiency test score ranking.

Smyrna, GA public schools have an average math proficiency score of 39% (versus the Georgia public school average of 44%), and reading proficiency score of 41% (versus the 45% statewide average). Schools in Smyrna have an average ranking of 5/10, which is in the bottom 50% of Georgia public schools.

Minority enrollment is 82% of the student body (majority Black), which is more than the Georgia public school average of 62% (majority Black).

Best Smyrna, GA Public Schools (2022-23)

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Grades

Students

Rank: #11.

King Springs Elementary School

Math: 59% | Reading: 59%
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Top 20%

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1041 Reed Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30082
(678) 842-6944

Grades: PK-5

| 1,054 students

Rank: #22.

Teasley Elementary School

Math: 56% | Reading: 61%
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Top 20%

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3640 Spring Hill Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(770) 437-5945

Grades: PK-5

| 927 students

Rank: #33.

Nickajack Elementary School

Math: 50% | Reading: 48%
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4555 Mavell Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30082
(678) 842-5814

Grades: PK-5

| 1,131 students

Rank: #44.

Campbell High School

Math: 37% | Reading: 51%
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Top 50%

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5265 Ward St Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6850

Grades: 9-12

| 2,981 students

Rank: #55.

Smyrna Elementary School

Math: 40% | Reading: 41%
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1099 Fleming St Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6741

Grades: PK-5

| 925 students

Rank: #66.

Argyle Elementary School

Math: 40-44% | Reading: 35-39%
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Bottom 50%

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2420 Spring Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6800

Grades: PK-5

| 315 students

Rank: #77.

Griffin Middle School

Math: 38% | Reading: 41%
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Bottom 50%

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4010 King Springs Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30082
(678) 842-6917

Grades: 6-8

| 1,495 students

Rank: #88.

Russell Elementary School

Math: 38% | Reading: 36%
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Bottom 50%

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3920 S Hurt Rd Sw
Smyrna, GA 30082
(770) 437-5937

Grades: PK-5

| 569 students

Rank: #99.

International Academy Of Smyrna

Charter School

Math: 36% | Reading: 37%
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Bottom 50%

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2144 South Cobb Drive
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 370-0980

Grades: K-5

| n/a students

Rank: #1010.

Norton Park Elementary School

Math: 41% | Reading: 29%
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Bottom 50%

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3041 Gray Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30082
(678) 842-5833

Grades: PK-5

| 748 students

Rank: #1111.

Campbell Middle School

Math: 31% | Reading: 37%
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Bottom 50%

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3295 Atlanta Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6873

Grades: 6-8

| 1,614 students

Rank: #1212.

Green Acres Elementary School

Math: 41% | Reading: 24%
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Bottom 50%

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2000 Gober Ave Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6905

Grades: PK-5

| 576 students

Rank: #1313.

Belmont Hills Elementary School

Math: 30-34% | Reading: 30-34%
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Bottom 50%

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605 Glendale Pl Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6810

Grades: PK-5

| 329 students

Rank: #1414.

Cobb Horizon High School

Math: 10-14% | Reading: 15-19%
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Bottom 50%

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3265 Brown Road
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 594-8240

Grades: 9-12

| 271 students

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Smyrna, Georgia Public Schools (Closed)

School

Location

Grades

Students

Brown Elementary School (Closed 2015)

3265 Brown Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6838

Grades: n/a

| n/a students

Cobb-douglas Psychoeducational Program (Closed 2021)

Alternative School

1595 Hawthorne Ave Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(770) 319-3751

Grades: n/a

| n/a students

Fitzhugh Lee Center (Closed 2021)

4400 West Atlanta Rd Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6899

Grades: n/a

| n/a students

Fitzhugh Lee Transitional Learning Center (Closed 2009)

Alternative School

4400 South Atlanta Road
Smyrna, GA 30080
(770) 426-3300

Grades: n/a

| n/a students

Haven Hawthorne Center (Closed 2021)

Special Education School

1595 Hawthorne Ave Se
Smyrna, GA 30080
(678) 842-6943

Grades: n/a

| n/a students

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Genocide Museum | The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute

Armenians settled in Smyrna, one of the trade and cultural centers of Asia Minor, from ancient times. They lived in the Armenian quarters of Getezerk, Karap and Haynots.

Already in the 18-19 centuries the city became a major Armenian cultural center. Books and magazines were published, which played a significant role in the socio-political and cultural life of Armenians. The Mesropyan and Hripsimyan women’s gymnasiums founded back in 1799, as well as a number of private schools, operated in the city. The Armenian community of Smyrna had four churches (the most famous is the church of St. Stephen), a national hospital and a theater. Merchants played an important role in the economic life of Smyrna. They exported carpets, leather, wool, dried fruits and had their trading houses in Europe, Russia, India and Egypt.

Due to its multicultural development, Smyrna has been known as the “Little Paris of the East”. Until 1922, about 30,000 Armenians lived in Smyrna.

In 1922, the Kemalist army set fire to the Armenian and Greek quarters of Smyrna, organizing the massacre of their population. The purpose of the fire was to force the Christian population to leave the city forever. The quarters were filled with tens of thousands of corpses of Greeks and Armenians. And those who unsuccessfully tried to find salvation on British, Italian and American warships drowned in the sea.

Thus, the tragedy of Smyrna became the last episode of the Armenian Genocide and the beginning of the implementation of the state Kemalist policy “Turkey to the Turks”. Today, Smyrna is known by its Turkish name, Izmir, and the vast majority of the city’s population is Turkish.

In September 2012, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute hosted a scientific meeting dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Smyrna tragedy, as well as a temporary exhibition of unique original photographs and video footage of the burning city of Smyrna.

Mesropian Armenian School of Smyrny
“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Armenian Church of Smyrna St. Stepan, 16th century, postcard

Orlando Calumeno Collection

Front part of St. Stepan

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Main altar of St. Stepan, postcard

MIGA collection

School for girls Hripsimyats

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Pupils of the Mesropyan school, 1909

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Pupils of the sports club Vardanyan Karatasha, 1912y.

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Smyrna Armenian Scout Group

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Winning football club of Smyrna “Ay Vorsordats”, 1912.

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Pupils of Hripsimyats School for Girls, 4th grade, 1909y.

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

The first group of graduates of the school for girls Hripsimyats, 1909

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Vardanyan Karatash football club, 1912

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Physical culture group of the school Mesropyan, 1908y.

“Our Smyrna and surrounding cities”, New York, 1960

Smyrna sports club building, postcard

MIGA collection

Port of Smyrna, postcard

MIGA collection

Coastal street of Smyrna, postcard

MIGA collection

Central part of Smyrna – late 19th, early 20th centuries, postcard

Orlando Calumeno Collection

Armenian Quarter of Smyrna, early 20th century, postcard

MIGA collection

Port of Smyrna, postcard

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Port of Smyrna – late 19th, early 20th centuries, postcard

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Karatash Armenian Quarter of Smyrna – late 19th, early 20th centuries, postcard

MIGA collection

Procession of the Armenian community in the Basma-Khan quarter, postcard

Orlando Calumeno Collection

Armenian and Greek men arrested and sentenced to exile, Smyrna, September 1922

MIGA collection

Smyrna refugees, September 1922

Photo taken by an American sailor

MIGA collection

Congregation of refugees in the port of Smyrna, September 1922

MIGA collection

Burnt port of Smyrna filled with panicked refugees

MIGA collection

Survivors from Turkish pogroms on an American ship, September 1922

MIGA collection

Crowds of refugees from Smyrna gathered in the port

MIGA collection

Burning Smyrna, September 1922

MIGA collection

Burning Smyrna in smoke, September 1922

MIGA collection

View of the coastal buildings fire, September 1922

MIGA collection

Smyrna passport building destroyed by fire, September 1922

MIGA collection

Smyrna Passport Building, destroyed by fire, September 1922

MIGA collection

The coastal structures of Smyrna in smoke, September 1922

MIGA collection

Smyrna on fire, September 1922

MIGA collection

Flaming Smyrna, night view, September 1922

MIGA collection

The inhabitants of Smyrna, who barely escaped the Kemalist pogroms, on a ship, September 1922

MIGA collection

Victims of the Smyrna pogroms, September 1922

MIGA collection

Christians who became victims of Turkish barbarism, September 1922

MIGA collection

Victims of the pogroms of Smyrna, September 1922

MIGA collection

Christians who became victims of Turkish barbarism, September 1922

MIGA collection

Victims of the pogroms of Smyrna, September 1922

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Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople – Orthodox Odessa

Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople

Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople (in the world), Georgios Angelopoulos was born in the year c.

175 Dimicians in Gortynia (Peloponnese) in a poor family.

He graduated with honors from the Dimichan school, continued his studies at the Evangelical school in Smyrna, and then entered the famous Patmian school on the island of Patmos. There, Georgios finally decided to devote himself to the service of God and took monastic tonsure with the name Gregory. The ascetic way of life, high morality, great knowledge in the field of secular and theological sciences made the young monk famous among his contemporaries. Metropolitan Procopius of Smyrna ordained Saint Gregory a deacon, and then a presbyter. Saint Gregory was the Metropolitan’s first assistant in managing the See of Smyrna. In 1875 Saint Gregory was ordained bishop and became the successor to Metropolitan Procopius. From that time began the great hierarchal ministry of St. Gregory to the Church of Christ and enslaved Greece. St. Gregory successfully fought against various disputable currents of his flock and after some time united all believers under his spiritual guidance.

With his impeccable life, he gave people an example of Christian morality and purity. The good shepherd also took care of the maintenance of the clergy. The love of the people was a response to the diligent labors of St. Gregory for the good of the Orthodox Church and Motherland. In 1798 Saint Gregory was unanimously elected Patriarch of Constantinople by the clergy and representatives of the people. For four years the holy Patriarch Gregory V headed the Greek Church. However, in such a short period of time, he managed to streamline the internal life of the Church, in which the long Turkish yoke gave rise to various disorders. Patriarch Gregory at the same time strengthened the existing national schools and created new ones. The spread of enlightenment awakened the national feeling of the Greeks. The activities of Patriarch Gregory, aimed at strengthening the Church and awakening the national self-consciousness of the people, were objectionable to the Turkish government. In 1802 Saint Gregory was exiled to Athos. However, the educational and scientific activity of the Saint was not interrupted. On Athos, he translated into colloquial Greek the speeches of Sts. Basil the Great and John Chrysostom. In 1806 Saint Gregory was returned to the patriarchal throne. His activity in the second period of the patriarchate was a continuation of the previous one. In 1808 the saint was again exiled to Athos. For 10 years he led an ascetic ascetic life there, until he was again returned to the patriarchate. Greek patriots found active support from Patriarch Gregory. His authority at the sultan’s court was often the only means of creating conditions for the spread of the national movement in Greece. When the liberation movement began in the country, the patriotic activity of the Patriarch intensified even more. The saint, despite the possibility of flight, did not leave his flock. The Turks began to massacre Greek patriots and Christians. The consoling word of the saint was necessary for the suffering people. On the day of Holy Pascha 1821, Patriarch Gregory celebrated the last Liturgy. After the service, he was arrested and imprisoned. Then the saint was given over to cruel tortures, and then the holy Patriarch was hanged in front of many clerics and laity between the patriarchal cathedral and the patriarchy. Before his death, he blessed the people. Three days later, the body of the Hieromartyr was handed over for desecration to the Jews, who, having dragged the body through Constantinople with mockery and spitting, drowned it in the sea. The holy body of St. Gregory on Fomino Resurrection was found by Greek sailors, whose ship under the Russian flag was anchored in Galata. On the same ship the body of the saint was transported to Odessa. Many Greeks and Russians arrived in Odessa to worship Hieromartyr Gregory. The incorruptible body of the saint, dressed in precious robes sent from Moscow and a miter with a cross, which belonged to His Holiness Patriarch Nikon, was laid in the Odessa Transfiguration Cathedral. Decree of the Holy Synod 19June, the burial rite was performed by Archbishop Dimitry of Chisinau and Khotyn. The body of the holy martyr was buried in the northern part of the altar of the Greek Trinity Church in Odessa. In 1848, Archbishop Innokenty (Borisov) established the annual celebration of the memory of the Hieromartyr Gregory in the Trinity Church on June 19 (July 2, New Style). In 1871, the holy relics of Patriarch Gregory V were transferred, at the request of the Greek government, from Odessa to the cathedral in Athens and laid to rest in a marble sarcophagus. In the same year, the saint was canonized among the saints of the Greek Orthodox Church.

At the request of His Eminence Metropolitan Agafangel of Odessa and Izmail, in the jubilee year 2000, Hieromartyr Patriarch Gregory V was canonized among the saints of our Church. / Journal of the meeting of the Holy Synod of the UOC No. 3 dated 04/17/2000/

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Black Page in the history Smyrna – the last episode of Genocide

Armenians settled in Smyrna (Armenian name – Zmyurnia) – one of the commercial and cultural centers of Asia Minor – from ancient times. They lived in the Armenian quarters of Getezerk, Karap and Haynots.

Central part of Smyrna. Late 19th, early 20th centuries, postcard

Already in the 18-19 centuries the city became a major Armenian cultural center. Books and magazines were published, which played a significant role in the socio-political and cultural life of Armenians. The city was founded in 1799 year women’s gymnasiums Mesropyan and Hripsimyan, as well as a number of private schools. The Armenian community of Smyrna had four churches (the most famous is the church of St. Stephen), a national hospital and a theater. Merchants played an important role in the economic life of Smyrna. They exported carpets, leather, wool, dried fruits and had their trading houses in Europe, Russia, India and Egypt.

Armenian Church of Smyrna St. Stepana, 16th century, postcard

Due to its multicultural development, Smyrna has been known as the “Little Paris of the East”. Under 19For 22 years, about 30,000 Armenians lived in Smyrna.

Port of Smyrna, postcard

In 1922, Smyrna, which the Turks called “Gyaur Izmir” (Unfaithful Izmir), was turned into ruins and a pile of ashes in a few days. On September 13, a fire broke out in Smyrna, which lasted several days and destroyed the Christian part of the city. During the massacre and subsequent events, about 200 thousand people died. The remaining Christians were forced to leave Smyrna. Dozens of Christian churches and institutions were destroyed…

How it was

As a result of the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, on May 15, 1919, Smyrna was occupied by Greek troops in accordance with Article 7 of the Armistice of Mudros. According to the Sevres Peace Treaty of 1920, she was to withdraw to Greece. However, Turkish nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal did not recognize the treaty.

After the victory at Dumlupinar (the decisive battle of the Second Greco-Turkish War) at the end of August 1922 years, the Turkish army broke through the Greek positions. On September 6, the retreating Greek army entered Smyrna. A day later, she completed the evacuation, which required all available ships. Meanwhile, in Smyrna, in addition to the local Greek and Armenian population, a large number of Greek refugees from the regions of Ionia occupied by the Turks accumulated.

On September 9, the Turkish army led by Mustafa Kemal entered Smyrna. Kemal solemnly announced that “every Turkish soldier who harms the civilian population will be shot.” However, the American consul George Horton, in his report of 9September, testifies:

“When the Turks entered the city, it went relatively calmly: in the morning the Greek gendarmerie maintained order in the city, which transferred its functions to the Turkish troops that entered. However, in the evening, robberies and murders began, in which local Muslims and partisans took an active part. Then the Turks cordoned off the Armenian quarter and proceeded to the systematic extermination of the Armenians. ”

Christian victims of Turkish barbarism, September 1922 years old

On September 13, Turkish soldiers doused and set fire to many buildings in the Armenian quarter, waiting for a time when a strong wind was blowing from the Muslim quarter. Then they began to pour gasoline on other places in the Christian-European part (in particular, in front of the American consulate).

Fire in Smyrna on September 14, 1922

Massacres and fires were going on throughout the city and were accompanied by brutal tortures of the population. Fleeing from the fire, most of the Christian residents crowded on the embankment. Turkish soldiers cordoned off the embankment, leaving the refugees without food and water. Many died of hunger and thirst, others committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea. To drown out the screams of perishing Christians, a Turkish military band was constantly playing. All this happened in full view of the Allied navy, which stood in the harbor without interfering.

Victims of the pogroms of Smyrna, September 1922

Among those killed by the Turks was the Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna. The holy father, who refused to leave the city, was handed over to the Turkish crowd by the commander Nureddin Pasha. He was beaten, poked with knives, his beard was torn out, his eyes gouged out, his ears and nose cut off until he died. Of the two elders accompanying Chrysostom, one was hanged, while the other was tied by the Turks by the legs to a car and dragged around the center of Smyrna.

Hieromartyr Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Smyrna

The Turkish authorities did not fail to place all responsibility for the fire on the Greeks and Armenians. So, on September 17, Mustafa Kemal sent a telegram to the Minister of Foreign Affairs with instructions on how to “comment” on the events – allegedly “the city was set on fire by the Greeks and Armenians, who were encouraged to do so by Metropolitan Chrysostom, who claimed that burning the city was a religious duty of Christians. The Turks did everything to save him.”

The same Kemal said to the French admiral Dumesnil: “We know that there was a conspiracy. We even found everything necessary for arson in the Armenian women… Before our arrival in the city, in the temples they called for a sacred duty – to set fire to the city.”

The French journalist Bertha Georges-Goly, who covered the war in the Turkish camp and arrived in Smyrna after the events, wrote: insane fury seized and they destroyed the Armenian quarter, from where, according to them, the first arsonists appeared.

This version is still official in Turkey. However, the famous Turkish historian Falih Ryfky Atay (who was once the personal secretary of Talaat Pasha and accompanied Dzhemal Pasha in the Sinai-Palestinian campaign), in his work entitled “Cankaya: from the birth of Ataturk to his death”, published in 1969, calls the culprit of the fire was the Turkish commander Nureddin Pasha, resolutely rejecting the official Turkish version.

Mustafa Kemal himself, observing the fire, said:

“We have before us a sign that Turkey has been cleansed of traitors and foreigners. From now on, Turkey belongs to the Turks.”

Escape

Most of the Greek and Armenian inhabitants of Smyrna accumulated on the coast. Turkish soldiers surrounded the port, depriving the refugees of food and water. Many died of hunger and thirst, others committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea.

September 13-14, 1922 Buildings on fire and people trying to escape

Writer Ernest Hemingway , who in 1922 was a correspondent for an American newspaper in Europe, described his impressions of the massacre in the story “In the Port of Smyrna”:

“… It was impossible to persuade women to give up their dead children. Sometimes they held them in their arms for six days. They didn’t give anything away. There was nothing we could do. I had, in the end, to take them away

It’s hard to forget the embankment of Smyrna. What just did not swim in its waters. For the first time in my life, I got to the point where I dreamed about it at night. Women who gave birth – it was not as scary as women with dead children.

However, under pressure from the Western powers, the Turks later allowed the evacuation, except for men aged 17 to 45, who were declared “interned and subject to deportation to the interior for forced labor.” The deadline for evacuation was given until September 30th. After that day, all those who remained were also subject to deportation for forced labor.

Armenian and Greek men arrested and sentenced to exile, Smyrna, September 1922

Despite the fact that there were many ships of different allied powers in the harbor, most of the ships, referring to neutrality, did not take the Greeks and Armenians, who were forced to flee from the fire and the Turkish troops. The American missionary Asa Jennings played an important role in organizing the evacuation – thanks to his efforts, on September 23, 1922, a hastily assembled Greek flotilla arrived at the port under the protection of American ships. Japanese ships dumped all their cargo in order to take on board as many refugees as possible. In the immediate aftermath of the massacre, some 400,000 refugees from Smyrna were registered as receiving Red Cross assistance.

Smyrna refugees, September 1922
Photo taken by an American sailor

Sad epilogue

The fire destroyed the entire city except for the Muslim and Jewish quarters. Hundreds of houses, 24 churches, 28 schools, bank buildings, consulates, and hospitals were destroyed in the fire. The number of victims in different sources varies from 60 thousand to 260 thousand. One estimate puts the average at 183,000 Greeks and 12,000 Armenians, with another 160,000 men deported to the interior of Anatolia. Most of them died along the way.

Winston Churchill wrote in connection with the fate of Smyrna:

“Kemal celebrated his triumph by reducing Smyrna to ashes and exterminating the entire local Christian population”

In Greece, these events caused a political crisis: there was an uprising in the army, and King Constantine was forced to abdicate. According to the verdict of the tribunal, five ministers were declared the main culprits for the defeat and were shot. In October, during the negotiations in Mudanya, a truce was reached between the Kemalists and the allies. After the war, in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne, a Greek-Turkish population exchange was carried out, and almost all Greeks left Smyrna.

The destruction of the native Christian population of the city and the exchange of population became the final phase of the process of liquidation of Christians in Asia Minor, carried out in the Ottoman Empire during the last decades of its existence.

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