Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria subsequently invaded Thrace, defeated a Byzantine army and forced the empire to move the market back to Constantinople. Naars new findings of the Greek state period are many and significant, and fill substantial gaps in the field but from the point of view of Ottomanists, this is somewhat of a miss. At the start of the 20th century, the Balkan region was a powder keg ready to explode. [24] The crowd invaded the building, broke into the room and lynched Abbott and Moulin with these very iron bars, in front of Mehmed Refet Pasha, Salim Bey and a few policemen, who were helpless in protecting the consuls. [7], At that time, a Bulgarian notable, Pericles Hajji Lazzaro, acted as US Consul in Thessaloniki (Salonika). Publisher: Stanford University Press [26], The governments of Europe instrumentalised the incident to embarrass the Ottoman Empire,[1] issuing an ultimatum demanding improvements in the security of foreigners,[8] as well as harsh and swift punishment for those responsible. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece Hardcover - 7 September 2016 by Devin E. Naar (Author) 29 ratings Part of: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture (109 books) Edition: 1st See all formats and editions Kindle $28.64 Read with Our Free App Hardcover $129.80 6 New from $129.80 Paperback However, Jews who kept their faith no longer wished for sectarian strife in their synagogues, and banned Paul and his companions from their midst. Not only were fifty thousand people murdered, but all that was left behind physical evidence, the dozens synagogues, public institutes, houses and the enormous cemetery was demolished by the Greeks who participated in the destruction and looting. Jewish Salonica is a cornerstone of Sephardi legacy, without which it is impossible to describe the history of Sephardi Jews after their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula. These events made the city to be nicknamed "The Refugee Capital" (I Protvousa ton Prosfgon) and "Mother of the Poor" (Ftokhomna). In the 14th century, however, the city faced upheaval in the form of the Zealot social movement (13421349), springing from a religious conflict between bishop Gregory Palamas, who supported conservative principles, and the monk Barlaam. In the late 19th century it reportedly had an area of 12,950 square miles (33,500 km 2 ). The city became subordinated to the Empire of Nicaea in 1242, when its ruler, John Komnenos Doukas, lost his imperial title, and was fully annexed in 1246. Also for a short time in the 1st century BC, Thessalonica even became capital for all the Greek provinces. Therefore, most of the Greek Salonican Jews studied in Jewish educational institutions, which were increasingly modernized and nationalized by the state. His father, Ali Riza, a customs official-turned-lumber merchant, died when Mustafa was still a boy. The community was still very powerful, both by virtue of Greek law and by voluntary acceptance, and was far from dissimilation as one might think. His mother, Zubeyde, a devout and strong-willed woman, raised him and his younger sister by herself. Jewish Salonica is the first book to tell the story of this tumultuous transition through the voices and perspectives of Salonican Jews as they forged a new place for themselves in Greek society. [8], On 3 May 1876,[10] a 16-year-old woman named Stephana, was abducted by several women. Also, the Ottoman forces lost 70 artillery pieces, 30 machine guns and 70,000 rifles (Thessaloniki was the central arms depot for the Western Armies). The fire left some 72,000 homeless, many of them Jewish, of a population of approximately 271,157 at the time. After the Battle of Klokotnitsa in 1230, Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria made the rulers of Thessaloniki his vassals. In 306, Thessalonki acquired a patron saint, St. Demetrius. The city names are in French. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. The Salonika Incident was a major diplomatic incident that broke out on 6 May 1876 after a mob murdered the consuls of France and Germany in the Ottoman city of Thessaloniki (then known as Salonika), Jules Moulin and Henry Abbott. For example, it is strange that items such as anti-Semitism or Zionism have such little reference, Palestine has none, and while JQR is mentioned, there is no reference to Jewish press or Jewish journalism.. Administrative divisions [ edit] Sanjaks of the Eyalet in the mid-19th century: [3] Sanjak of Tirhala ( Trikala) Sanjak of Selanik ( Thessalonica) Sanjak of Siroz ( Serres) Sanjak of Drama Governors [ edit] Governors of the eyalet: [4] The Ottoman period spanned more than 600 years and came to an end only in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish Republic and various successor states in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. [11] Stephana, from Bogdanitsa, near Gevgelija, was of Bulgarian and Christian heritage, but probably had a muslim lover[12] against the will of her family. She gained her name ("victory of Thessalians", from Greek: nik "victory") from her father, Philip II, to commemorate her birth on the day of his gaining a victory over the Phocians, who were defeated with the help of Thessalian horsemen, the best in Greece at that time. In 1893 a part of the Bulgarian intelligentsia created a revolutionary organization, which spread its influence among Bulgarians throughout Ottoman Balkans and became the strongest Bulgarian paramilitary movement, best known under its latest name, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). The Ottomans had previously captured Thessaloniki in 1387, but lost it in the aftermath of their defeat in the Battle of Ankara against Tamerlane in 1402, when the weakened Ottomans were forced to hand back a number of territories to the Byzantines. The Population of Salonica Province hy Millet The census of Salonica like all the censuses of the Ottoman Empire reflected its population along the line with the millets while others took into account language, . From 1867 it was transformed into the Selanik Vilayet, which included the sanjaks of Selnik (Thessaloniki), Drama, and Serres (Siroz or Serez). [1] Warships deployed in the Mediterranean as a show of force to back the demands. ", Tsvetkovitch, Dragisha. Salonica Eyalet ( Ottoman Turkish: ; Eylet-i Selnk) [2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire . The community leaders sought after a modern, educated man, someone perceived as progressive and enlightened, and as a person who can be an appropriate representative and a worthy partner with the authorities (134). Published on May 1, 2018. On 18 August[O.S. For about three decades, the Salonican Jews lived under the Greek state, and as Naar claims, when moving to the Greek state (1912) rather than transporting themselves to a different country, a different country had come to them (5). Salonica was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world until its liquidation by the Nazis in 1943. Macedonia for Macedonians! At the end of the Ottoman period, emphasis was put on the formulation of Jewish Salonica following the expulsion from Iberia (1492), and it was intensified after the 400th jubilee. It would take until the end of the 19th century for the Greek community to recover. Written in Ladino, Greek, French, and Hebrew, these archives, combined with local newspapers, reveal how Salonica's Jews fashioned a new hybrid identity as Hellenic Jews during a period marked by rising nationalism and economic crisis as well as unprecedented Jewish cultural and political vibrancy. (It's not a modern c. ). [23], After three quarters on an hour, the mob started breaking into the room where the consuls where surrounded, by dislodging the iron bars that protected the windows. Barely a thousand Jews survived. It was a challenging transition. Stephana associated with a neighbouring Turkish and Muslim family, which took her in their home[11] and proposed to bring her to Thessaloniki in order to complete administrative paperwork that would officially enact her conversion to Islam. The Ottoman rule in Thessaloniki ended much later, in 1912, as Greek soldiers entered the city in the last days of the First Balkan War. The fifth chapter discusses the enormous Jewish cemetery, probably the largest in the world at the time, containing some three hundred and fifty thousand headstones. Several public officers were demoted and some were sentenced to hard labour. Thessaloniki itself came under attack from Slavs in the 7th century (most notably in 617 and 676678); however, they failed to capture the city. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar This is part of our special feature, Contemporary Urban Research in the European City. Boulevard "de la Revolution" during the National Defence movement. This constructs formulation paradoxically intensified after the communitys annihilation by the Nazis. Despite its weakness, and although being pushed aside, the communitys leadership was able to face the pressure from the municipal authorities, the chamber of commerce, the university and others, both in the days of Venizelos and of Metaxas. Alongside the sentimental and historical value, the writings on these headstones were an important source for studying the communitys and its notables. Quickly, it turned into a political anti-aristocratic movement during the Byzantine civil war of 134147, leading to the Zealots ruling the city from 1342 until 1349. Schools contributed both to the preservation and transformation of Jewish identity. In 1916, pro-Venizelist army officers, with the support of the Allies, launched an uprising, which resulted in the establishment of a pro-Allied temporary government (the "Provisional Government of National Defence"), headed by Venizelos, that controlled northern Greece and the Aegean, against the official government of the King in Athens. [15], The train arrived at Thessaloniki in the morning of 5 May. Upon the early period of the Greek state, the schools were perceived as sites in which children of the last generation of Ottoman Jews were to become the first generation of Hellenic Jews. 1, Spring 2018, pp. [6] Quite a few of the comments about Salonica are relevant for other Jewish communities, making this book fascinating also for those studying Jewish history in general. Miriam Kochan (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press).. ISBN: 9780804798877. TalksJewish Salonica - Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern GreeceTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thes. The book neglects to mention some of the important contributions of Minna Rozen and her students in various issues, among them economic occupations (the field of Orly K. Meron and Shay Serugo), material culture and consumption as expressions of modernity and Hellenization processes. This precipitated the political conflict between the pro-Allied Prime Minister, Eleftherios Venizelos and the pro-neutral King Constantine. This trend persists in Naars discussions of the fate of Salonican Jews in the Greek state, where it is even more innovative and refreshing. According to Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov around the beginning of the 20th century there were approximately 10,000 Bulgarians, forming a substantial minority in the city. of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as citizens of a nation-state.Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern .Jewish Salonica. When the Roman Prefecture of Illyricum was divided between the East and West Roman Empires in 379, Thessaloniki became the capital of the new Prefecture of Illyricum (reduced in size). Blunt, learning of the ongoing incident, sent a message of his own to Abbott's brothers, and rushed to the scene of the incident. 139-156) deal with the Ottoman period, while twice as much (pp. [22], Meanwhile, the British Consul, J.E. It would be "neither Greek, Bulgarian nor Turkish, but Jewish".[9]. Reviewed by Yaron Ben-Naeh and Tamir Karkason, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece [29], The Sultan replaced Refat Pasha with Sherif Pasha as governor, and sent troops in to maintain order. 19th c. Salonika. The Hebrard plan, although never fully completed, swept away the oriental features of Thessalonki and transformed it into the modern European metropolis that it is today. [6] Finally, the Sublime Porte was entering a period of such political instability that 1876 would become known as the "Year of Three Sultans". Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Naar, Devin E. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. With the end of Ottoman rule, and the assumption of Greek citizenship by the Salonicans, the Jewish community preserved a considerable degree of autonomy until the Holocaust, at which time, Jewish Salonica was effectively wiped out. Thessaloniki was rebuilt and recovered fairly quickly after the war, with this resurgence taking in both a rapid growth in its population and a large-scale development of new infrastructure and industry throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In June 2003, the city was host to the Summit meeting of European leaders, at the end of the Greek Presidency of the EU, with the summit taking place at the Porto Carras resort in Chalkidiki, to aid security precautions. Jewish Salonica Ottoman Empire by Naar Devin - AbeBooks PDF Jewish Salonica Between The Ottoman . The music is best exemplified by Marika Papagika who recorded Smyrneiko Ballos. To him, Salonican Jews are not only passive victims of Greek anti-Semites or the Nazis, but historical actors in their own right (11). Naar attempted to draw in his book the image of the Salonican community in the last decade of the nineteenth century the end of the Hamidian Period in the Ottoman Empire, until the communitys destruction in 1943. The nationalist "Young Turks" movement had taken . [9] They seized her, removed her traditional Turkish clothes, put her in a carriage and took her to Hajji Lazzaro's residence. When the city was re-planned after the fire of 1917, different bodies the university, neighboring quarters and more coveted the land. [8] Blunt telegraphed the news of the incident and of the murders to the British embassy in Constantinople and, warning that the local authorities did not have the necessary forces to maintain order, requested the protection of the Royal Navy. Naar stresses that the Salonican Jews should not be dismissed as passive victims or as disconnected from the realities of their world (291). During this age, the Jews of Salonica transformed from living as equal subjects in the realms of the Ottoman sultans without idealizing the Ottoman past to living in the Greek Christian nation state. The book indeed refers to the Ottoman-Greek continuum, but clearly focuses more on the Greek state period than on the Ottoman period, probably due to his choice of sources. Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. To readmore book reviews, pleaseclick here. Written in Ladino, Greek, French, and Hebrew, these archives, combined with local newspapers, reveal how Salonica's Jews fashioned a new hybrid identity as Hellenic Jews during a period marked by rising nationalism and economic crisis as well as unprecedented Jewish cultural and political vibrancy. It grew to be an important trade-hub located on the Via Egnatia, the Roman road connecting Byzantium (later Constantinople) with Dyrrhachium (now Durrs in Albania), which facilitated trade between Europe and Asia. Naar should be applauded for attempting to relate to the Ottoman-Greek continuum, thereby continuing the tradition of his teacher, Aron Rodrigue, and his colleague, Ester Benbassa. Ester Benbassa demonstrated that in 1909, similar considerations had led to nominating Haim Nahum (1873-1960), the last chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire. "The Jewish Community of Salonika: The End of a Long History. They arrested 50 people, of whom six were publicly executed without a trial. "Prince Paul, Hitler, and Salonika. The Mulla of Thessalonica, Hayrlah, gives the following description of Yusuf's retaliations: "Every day and every night you hear nothing in the streets of Thessaloniki but shouting and moaning. [18] Abbott and Moulin found themselves surrounded by the mob, and taken to a building adjacent to a mosque, where they found a precarious refuge from the crowd, and the very relative protection of a handful of policemen. First . The city sustains two state universities the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the largest university in Greece (founded in 1926), and the University of Macedonia, alongside the Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki. The Salonican historians, like some of their colleagues in Mandatory Palestine, can be defined as late Maskilim with a link to the late Jewish Haskalah movement and for some also a link to the realm of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Judaic Studies) movement. Naars discussion of the cemetery is instructive and important, among else since the debate over the cemeterys fate reflects the intrigues in the community and its relations with the Greek state. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as. In May 1821 the governor of Thessaloniki Yusuf Bey (son of Ismail Bey) ordered to kill any Greeks found in the streets. At the end of the Ottoman Period, the old Jewish education institutes, headed by the prestigious Great Talmud Torah had to compete with the modern ones such as Alliance Isralite Universelle and foreign schools. [3] For a similar case, see Daphne Tsimhoni, The British Mandate and the Status of the Religious Communities in Palestine, Cathedra 80 (1996): 150-174 [Hebrew]. Alongside Istanbul, Salonica stands at the center of the study on Ottoman Jewry and the Jewish Sephardi Diaspora. About 50 AD, while on his second missionary journey, Paul the Apostle reasoned with the Jews from the Scriptures in this city's chief synagogue on three Sabbaths and sowed the seeds for Thessaloniki's first Christian church. Account & Lists Returns & Orders. He has assembled a uniquely detailed profile of a leading Sephardic community under the Ottoman Empire and the succeeding Greek national state out of archives in Russia, Greece, Israel, the United States, and Spain. During that time the city came to host the fair of Saint Demetrius every October, which was held just outside the city walls and lasted six days. Devin E. Naar traveled the globe, from New York to Salonica, Jerusalem, and Moscow, to excavate archives once confiscated by the Nazis. The Austrian government proposed to make Salonika into a neutral, internationalized city similar to what Danzig was to later become; it would have had a territory of 400460km2 and a population of 260,000. Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. Realizing the value of the Jewish citizenry, the Ottoman Emperor invited Jews fleeing for their lives to resettle in his territories, which included Salonica. Ever since, Thessaloniki has been dubbed as symprotvousa ("co-capital"). The foretold ending shadows the entire book, leaving the reader with a troubling sensation. Salonika (Salonique in French) was located in the heart of the Ottoman Empire. [9] The French consul was Jules Moulin. The most prominent among them, Nehama, even became a Spanish citizen, an act that in retrospect saved him from death during the holocaust (219). The book charts how the end of the Ottoman Empire and the incorporation of Salonica into Greece impacted the city's Jews. Their populations, however, were quickly replaced by considerable numbers of Greek refugees from Asia Minor as a result of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, following the defeat of the Greek forces in Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War. However, unlike Naars important paper mentioned above, this chapter only deals of the Jewish-Salonican historiography. Venice held the city until it was captured after a three-day-long siege by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, on 29 March 1430. 2. According to Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish community of at least 500-strong existed in the 12th century when he visited there. [25] The corpses were further mutilated after the two men were killed. As an important part of a multicultural empire, Jews in Salonica suddenly became a minority in Greece: they observed a different religion and spoke a different language from the majority of . Most of the more than 40 minarets were demolished after 1912, or collapsed due to the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917; the only surviving one is at the Rotonda (Arch and Tomb of Galerius). from $26.00 Hardcover ISBN: 9780804798877 Paperback ISBN: 9781503600089 Ebook ISBN: 9781503600096 Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. The Sephardic population settled mainly in the major urban centers of the Ottoman Empire, which included Salonika. [2] His view provides a broad and significant perspective on that period. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled Salonica's Jews to reimagine their community and status as Jewish Salonica Between The Ottoman Jewish Salonica: Between . The next day, a Bulgarian division arrived, and Bulgarian troops were allowed to enter the city in limited numbers. Spain's Edict of Expulsion, promulgated by Catholic King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, forced Jews to either convert to Christianity, or be tortured and burned with the support of the Inquisition. Here, Naar concludes his thoughts about Jewish historiography and its treatment of this community by asking whether this was indeed a sui generis community in the illusions of memory, and the politics of memory and memorialization. In 2004 the city hosted a number of the football events forming part of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and experienced a massive modernisation program. ANTIQUE OLD PRINT. Today with the opening of borders in Southeastern Europe it is currently experiencing a strong revival, serving as the prime port for the northern Greek regions of Macedonia and Thrace, as well as for the whole of Southeastern Europe. With the help of the influx of cultures, Thessalonki, called Selnik in Turkish, became one of the most important cities in the Empire, viable as the foremost trade and commercial center in the Balkans. The community was aided by various forces within the city and in Athens, and also recruited international Jewish and non-Jewish forces, managing to prevent the expropriation of the land until a law in this respect was enacted in 1936. The history of the city of Thessaloniki is a long one, dating back to the ancient Greeks (Macedonians). The economic expansion of the city continued throughout the 12th century as the rule of the Komnenoi emperors expanded Byzantine control into Serbia and Hungary, to the north. Emanuel even studied in the Rabbinical Seminar of Breslau, and Naar depicts his life as a sole Oriental Jew among Ashkenazi brethren in the 1920s ( 219-225). History Of The Jews In Thessaloniki. In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. [5] Yaron Ben-Naeh, The Historiography of Ottoman Jewry, Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. We have chosen to elaborate on these two issues. The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, was born there in 1881, and the Young Turk movement was headquartered in the city in the early 20th century. A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica presents the personal diary of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820-1903) in English translation and Ladino transliteration from the original in soletreo (Hebrew script of Ottoman Ladino dialect). In the late Page 2/7 October, 22 2022 Jewish Salonica Between The Ottoman Empire And Modern Greece Stanford Studies In Jewish History And C Siberian Expedition, 1918-1922 - Geo Babb Thessaloniki History Pt IV: Ottoman Occupation \u0026 Arrival of Sephardic Jews Jewish Salonica Between The Ottoman Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece: Naar, Devin E.: Amazon.sg: Books Salonica became the Jewish center of the Ottoman Empire after 1492. There, witnessing the severity of the situation, he write another message to Hajji Lazzaro, also urging him to lead Stephana to the mosque. This established community, in its last fifty years of existence, is the subject of the book by Devin E. Naar. The city came to become the largest Jewish city in the world and remained as such for at least 200 years, often called "Mother of Israel". The methodological importance of discussing historiography lies in the fact that Naar does not only focus on analyzing their work but continues to characterize them as a distinct social group: these historians received rabbinical training, most of them served as rabbis or cantors, and they maintained a religious lifestyle in an age of growing secularization (236). Jewish Salonica Between Ottomans And Greeks Mosaic. ", This page was last edited on 30 July 2022, at 14:29. Thessalonki was the birthplace of Mustafa Kemal (Atatrk), and it became the headquarters for the Ottoman Liberty Society, a faction of the Young Turk movement that initiated the Turkish revolution of 1908. In the 1820s, a number of incidents leading to the death of Christians occurred in the Ottoman Empire, notably the Constantinople massacre of 1821, marking the European opinion. FORMAT : 25 X 34 CM. 156-186) discuss the Greek state period. [28] The mob thus ceased to threaten the Christian quarters of the city, and allowed the Pasha to extend his protection to Hajji Lazzaro. Jewish Salonica is known in the collective memory as the Mother of Israel (ir va-em be-Israel). 383,967), capital of Thessalonki prefecture, N Greece, in Macedonia; on the Gulf of Thessalonki, an inlet of the Aegean Sea, at the neck of the Khalkidhik Peninsula. Department of HistoryUniversity of Washington318 Smith Box 353560Seattle, WA 98195-3560, Phone: (206) 543-5790Fax: (206) 543-9451histmain@uw.edu, PrivacyTermsSite MapAlumni UpdateContact Us, The History Diversity Committee, faculty and staff invite you to read our, Ancient Mediterranean & Late Antique Near East, Students Admitted to History Doctoral Program, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece - Stanford University Press. This is part of our special feature,Contemporary Urban Research in the EuropeanCity. Hello, Sign in. [8] The German consul in Thessaloniki was Sir Henry Abbott, a British subject of Orthodox Christian faith. A quiet interlude followed until repeated barbarian invasions after the fall of the Roman Empire, while a catastrophic earthquake severely damaged the city in 620, resulting in the destruction of the Roman Forum and several other public buildings. The communitys annihilation did not start with the Nazi occupation. Nazim Hikmet Jewish Salonica Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. As rumours ran wild, people grew restless, prompting the Chief of Police, Colonel Salim Bey, to call for the crowd to calm down and disperse. Summary[edit] DescriptionSalonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (1900).png XY Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (1900). He was the Roman Proconsul of Greece, under the emperor Maximian. According to the 1881/82-1893 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 1.009.992 people, ethnically consisting as:[7], According to the 1906/07 Ottoman census the vilayet had a total population of 921,359 people, ethnically consisting as:[8], According to an estimate by Aram Andonian in 1908 there was the following ethnic distribution in the vilayet:[9], Learn how and when to remove this template message, Teaching Modern Southeast European History, Ottoman Population, 1830-1914, Demographic and Social Characteristics, Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913; Edward J. Erickson; Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; p.41, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Salonica_vilayet&oldid=1087757682, This page was last edited on 14 May 2022, at 09:39. The events and the deaths of the protesters inspired Yiannis Ritsos to write the Epitafios. 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