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Fire of Manisa
The Fire of Manisa () refers to the burning of the town of Manisa, Turkey which started on the night of Tuesday 5 September 1922 and continued until 8 September. It was started and organized by the retreating Greek troops during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), and as a result 90 percent of the buildings in the town were destroyed. The number of victims in the town and adjacent region was estimated to be several thousand by US Consul James Loder Park. Turkish sources claim
he found corpses in the streets and most buildings razed to their foundations, only the walls of the historic Aydın mosque were still standing; the corpse of an unknown man lay in the street in front of where Su's house had stood. He later wrote "Manisa ve Yöresinde İşgal Acıları", a book about the Greek occupation and the fire.
See also.
- Fire of Smyrna (occurred a short time after Manisa on 13 September 1922)