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 "id": "event/greek-occupation-edirne-1920",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "greek-occupation-edirne-1920",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الاحتلال اليوناني لأدرنة",
  "en": "Greek occupation of Edirne",
  "ur": "ادرنہ پر یونانی قبضہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "سقطت أدرنة تحت الاحتلال البلغاري لفترة وجيزة سنة 1913م بعد حربي البلقان، ثم احتلها اليونان بين عامي 1920 و1922م، وصارت منذ ذلك الحين مدينة حدود تركية {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}.",
  "en": "After the Balkan Wars Edirne fell briefly under Bulgarian occupation in 1913, then was occupied by the Greeks between 1920 and 1922, and has since been a Turkish frontier city {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}.",
  "ur": "بلقان جنگوں کے بعد ادرنہ 1913ء میں مختصر مدت کے لیے بلغاری قبضے میں آیا، پھر 1920ء سے 1922ء تک یونانیوں کے زیرِ قبضہ رہا، اور تب سے یہ ترکی کا سرحدی شہر ہے {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/modern-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1919.9976043313688,
  "latest": 1922.9983504109966
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1920",
   "hijri": "1338~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الاحتلال اليوناني 1920-1922م {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}؛ الهجري مشتق."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1922",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "conquest",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1920",
    "hijri": "1338~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "الاحتلال اليوناني 1920-1922م {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}؛ الهجري مشتق."
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "1922",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true
   }
  },
  "sides": [
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "قوات السلطان وحيد الدين ⁦(محمد السادس)⁩",
     "en": "The forces of None"
    },
    "participants": [
     "person/muhammad-vi-uthmani"
    ]
   },
   {
    "label": {
     "ar": "حامية أدرنة",
     "en": "The defenders of Edirne"
    },
    "participants": [
     "place/edirne"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "map": {
   "kind": "campaign",
   "precision": "locality",
   "center": [
    41.6772,
    26.556
   ],
   "extent_km": 80,
   "basemap": "terrain",
   "features": [
    {
     "type": "point",
     "role": "event_point",
     "label": {
      "ar": "الاحتلال اليوناني لأدرنة",
      "en": "Greek occupation of Edirne"
     },
     "at": [
      41.6772,
      26.556
     ],
     "precision": "locality",
     "source": "source/geonames-gazetteer"
    }
   ],
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Encyclopaedia of Islam 2, vol. 2 EDIRNE, PDF p. 710 (harvest OCR)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "explorer-edirne"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "احتل اليونان أدرنة بين عامي 1920 و1922م بعد أن سقطت لفترة وجيزة بيد البلغاريين سنة 1913م {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مدينة الحدود",
     "markdown": "صارت أدرنة منذ حربي البلقان مدينة حدود تركية؛ وانخفض سكانها من أكثر من مئة ألف في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر إلى 34,528 في إحصاء 1927م {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/greek-occupation-edirne-1920",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Greeks occupied Edirne between 1920 and 1922, after the city had fallen briefly to the Bulgarians in 1913 {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "A frontier city",
     "markdown": "Since the Balkan Wars Edirne has been a Turkish frontier city; its population fell from over 100,000 in the mid-nineteenth century to 34,528 at the 1927 census {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/greek-occupation-edirne-1920",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "یونانیوں نے ادرنہ پر 1920ء سے 1922ء تک قبضہ کیا، اس سے پہلے شہر 1913ء میں مختصر عرصے کے لیے بلغاریوں کے قبضے میں رہا {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سرحدی شہر",
     "markdown": "بلقان جنگوں کے بعد سے ادرنہ ترکی کا سرحدی شہر ہے؛ اس کی آبادی انیسویں صدی کے وسط کی ایک لاکھ سے گھٹ کر 1927ء کی مردم شماری میں 34,528 رہ گئی {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 710}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/greek-occupation-edirne-1920",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
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   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad-vi-uthmani",
   "type": "during_reign",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
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   "to": "person/abd-al-majid-ii",
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  "event/anglo-turkish-war-1918",
  "event/bursa-independence-war-1337",
  "event/pontic-uprising-skip",
  "polity/ottoman-empire",
  "person/abd-al-majid-ii",
  "person/muhammad-vi-uthmani",
  "building/eski-mosque-edirne",
  "building/uc-serefeli-mosque"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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