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Phocaea (Foça)

A town situated 63km north of Smyrna (Izmir). Phocaea Greeks founded modern Marseilles, France in 600AD. Prior to the genocide Phocaea was home to 8,000 Greeks and 30 Turks.
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Phocée 1913-1920; le témoignage de Félix Sartiaux. (Picard 2008). In French.
The chance discovery of the entire photographic archive of Felix Sartiaux on Foça (Gr: Phocaea) by photographic historian Haris Giakoumis including his personal archive of articles and notes on the events of June 1914 reveals an account of a critical witness by a faithful friend of the Ottoman Greeks who lovingly supported Hellenism in Asia Minor during difficult times.
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Plaque at the old port of Marseilles
In 600 B.C. Greeks from Phocaea (today Foça) founded the city of Marseille on the southern coast of France. In 1952, the Mayor of Marseille, Gaston Deferre inaugurated the following plaque at the Old Port of the Marseilles to commemorate the founding of the city by Greeks 2,600 years earlier. It reads: "Here, around the year 600 BC, Greek sailors arrived from Phocaea, a Greek city of Asia Minor, and founded Marseille, thus influencing western civilization."
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A Greek house until 1922, Phocaea
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Ancient theatre Phocaea
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Panoramic view of Old Phocaea, 1913
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Ships at the Gulf of Old Phocaea on the day of the massacre, preparing to take people to safety
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Following the massacres in their town, Greeks of Phocaea boarding boats to flee to Greece, Phocaea 13 June 1914
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Turkish chetes (irregulars) leaving Phocaea with the spoils following the massacre of the Greeks of the town.
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Burnt Greek homes at Old Phocaea