High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Great Fire of Smyrna or the Catastrophe of Smyrna (Greek: ?????????? ??? ???????, Turkish: Buyuk Izmir Yang?n?, "Smyrna Catastrophe", Armenian: ??????????? ??? ?????) was a fire that destroyed much of the port city of Izmir (then generally referred to by its ancient name of Smyrna in English) in September 1922. Eye-witness reports state that the fire began on 13 September 1922 and lasted until it was largely extinguished on September 22. It occurred four days after the Turkish forces regained control of the city on 9 September 1922, thus effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) in the field, more than three years after the Greek army had landed troops at Smyrna on 15 May 1919. As a result of the fire and massacres, Greek and Armenian casualties range from a low of 2,000 to a high of 10,000 and to a higher estimate of 100,000, some reports state that at least 2,000 people were killed as a direct result of the fire. Данное...

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