At a glance
- Era
- The Modern Era
- Region
- Anatolia
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
The forces of None
The defenders of Edirne
Overview
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.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Edirne
- During the reign of
- السلطان وحيد الدين (محمد السادس)· Caliph Abd al-Majid II
People and things also explored
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
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 710
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Greek occupation of Edirne”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/greek-occupation-edirne-1920/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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