Greek occupation of Edirne

الاحتلال اليوناني لأدرنة

1920 CE · c. 1338 AH – †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Edirne

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 1.

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Edirne

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The Greeks occupied Edirne between 1920 and 1922, after the city had fallen briefly to the Bulgarians in 1913 1.

A frontier city

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 1.

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Edirne
During the reign of
السلطان وحيد الدين ⁦(محمد السادس)⁩· Caliph Abd al-Majid II

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Anglo-Turkish War (1918–1923)· Bursa in the Turkish war of independence· Pontic Uprising· Ottoman Empire· Caliph Abd al-Majid II· السلطان وحيد الدين ⁦(محمد السادس)⁩· Eski Mosque, Edirne· Uc Serefeli Mosque, Edirne

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 710
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