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ISBN10: 0199278962, ISBN13: 9780199278961, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Following the defeat of the Greek Army in 1922 by nationalist Turkish forces, the Convention of Lausanne in 1923 specified the first compulsory exchange of populations ratified by an international organization. The arrival in Greece of over 1.2 million refugees and their settlement proved to be a watershed with far-reaching consequences for the country.Dr Kontogiorgi examines the exchange of populations and the agricultural settlement in GreekMacedonia of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor and the Pontus, Eastern Thrace, the Caucasus, and Bulgaria during the inter-war period. She examines Greek state policy and the role ofthe Refugee Settlement Commission which, under the auspices of the League of Nations, carried out the refugee resettlement project. Macedonia, a multilingual and ethnically diverse society, experienced a transformation so dramatic that it literally changed its character. Kontogiorgi charts that change and attempts to provide the means of understanding it. The consequences of the settlement of refugees for the ethnological composition of the population, and its political, social, demographic,and economic implications are treated in the light of new archival material. Reality is separated from myth in examining the factors involved in the process of integration of the newcomers andassimilation of the inhabitants - both refugees ...

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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2006 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 396 p. Oxford Historical Monographs.

ISBN10: 0199278962, ISBN13: 9780199278961, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover
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