"Scores dead in Smerdesh"

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"Scores dead in Smerdesh": intercommunal violence and intrigue in Ottoman Macedo Gingeras, Ryan

R. Gingeras, "'Scores dead in Smerdesh': a micro-s and international intrigue in Ottoman Macedonia,"

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study of intercommunal violence " Balkanistica, v.25, no.1 (2012),

"Scores dead in Smerdesh"

Published on Apr 15, 2012

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Kristalopigi is a place few would pass and even fewer visit. Tucked to the north of the sleepy lake town of Kastoria, Kristalopigi comprises a handful of houses that straddle a dual carriageway to and from a lonesome customs post along the Albanian-Greek frontier. Henry Noel Brailsford, a British nurse, journalist and activist who toured the area in 1903, described it as "a gloomy and forbidding place, built of stone upon a gaunt hillside in a narrow valley where the sun shines no more than three hours in a day. Great source for you to visualize the terror and atrocities that Macedonian people suffered in their homeland Macedonia, more precisely in the occupied region of Aegean Macedonia annexed by Greece in 1913.

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