Asia Minor Catastrophe

The streets of Preveza were filled with laughter, satirical skits, teasing and dancing this Saturday, January 11, impressing the hundreds of people who attended the Greek custom Momogeri. The event began with a meeting in Theofaneio followed by a performance...

On June 3, the oldest Greek-Australian woman, Katerina Kilikidis, died at the age of 110 in Melbourne. She lived the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922 and survived the difficult overland journey from Turkey to Greece. With her parents, she went...

NSW Parliament's recent decision to recognize the Genocide of Pontian Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians, triggered Turkey's strong reaction. According to the newspaper The Weekend Australian, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the relevant resolution of the parliament of the...

Second-grade students of the Second General Lyceum of Eleftherio-Kordelio, a city in northwest Thessaloniki, started a research in September 2012 trying to collect as much information as possible on the period before and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and...

Since November 1912 Australian journalists were aware of the imminent uprooting of Hellenism in Asia Minor. This new information was found in newspaper reports presented by university professor of Greek descent, Panagiotis Diamantis in his lecture: How Australian journalists were...

A commemorative event entitled Smyrna - Asia Minor, 90 Years of Memory, 1922-2012 was organized by the Greek Community of Uruguay paying tribute to the memory of the victims of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. The idea behind the event was...