List of massacres in Greece

Ancient Greece

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Destruction of Melos	415 BC	Milos	unknown	Troops of Athens	Population partly massacred, partly enslaved.
Battle of Thebes	December, 335 BC	Thebes	6,000 (plus 30,000 enslaved)	Troops of Alexander the Great	The city was completely destroyed.
Battle of Corinth (146 BC)	146 BC	Corinth	unknown	Troops of the Roman Empire	Complete destruction of the city. Population partly massacred, partly enslaved.
Massacre of Thessalonica	April 390	Thessalonica	7,000	Troops of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I

Byzantine Greece

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Sack of Thessalonica (1185)	9–24 August 1185	Thessaloniki	7,000	Normans

Ottoman Greece

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Peloponnese massacres	March 1770	Peloponnese, mainly Tripolitsa	3,000-10,000 (plus 20,000 refugees)	Albanian irregulars	After the failure of Orlov Revolt.
Preveza massacre	October 1798	Preveza	unknown	Albanian Muslims	Complete destruction, devastation of the city.

Greek Revolution (1821- 1832)

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Constantinople massacre	April–July 1821	Occurred in Constantinople, but contemporary pogrom activities spread in parts of present-day Greece (Kos, Rhodes)[1]	unknown	Ottoman government
Thessaloniki massacres	May 1821	Thessaloniki	unknown	Ottoman government	Governor Yusuf Bey ordered to kill any Greeks found in the streets.
Navarino massacre	19 August 1821	Pylos	3,000	Greek irregular forces
Samothrace massacre	1 September 1821	Samothrace	1,000[2]	Ottoman army	Complete destruction, devastation of the island.
Tripolitsa massacre	23 September 1821	Tripolis	6,000-15,000	Greek irregular forces
Chios massacre	March 1822	Chios	20,000	Ottoman government
Naousa massacre	13 April 1822	Naousa	2,000	Ottoman army
Kasos massacre	7 June 1824	Kasos	7,000	Ottoman-Egyptian army
Destruction of Psara	July 1824	Psara	7,000	Ottoman army
Third Siege of Missolonghi	April 1826	Missolonghi	8,000	Ottoman/Egyptian army	Missolonghi received the honorary title of Hiera Polis (Sacred City) by the Greek state.

First Balkan War

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Servia massacre	10 October 1912	Servia, Greece	117	Ottoman Army

Second Balkan War

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Doxato Massacre	30 June 1913	Doxato	650	Bulgarian Royal Army

World War II

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Massacre of Kondomari	2 June 1941	Crete	60	German paratroopers
Alikianos executions	2 June 1941 and 1 August 1941	Western Crete	180+	German paratroopers
Razing of Kandanos	3 June 1941	Western Crete	180	German Army troops
Doxato massacre	28–29 September 1941	Doxato	200+	Bulgarian Royal Army
Domenikon massacre	16–17 February 1943	Domenikon	150	Italian Royal Army
Feneos executions	March 1943-June 1944	Feneos	unknown	mainly OPLA	The local monastery functioned as a concentration camp.
Holocaust of Viannos	14–16 June 1943	Viannos and Ierapetra regions	500+	German Army troops
Massacre of the Acqui Division	21 September 1943	Kefalonia, Greece	5,000	German Army troops	Dramatized in the film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Kommeno massacre	16 August 1943	Kommeno	317	German Army troops
Paramythia executions	19–29 September 1943	Paramythia	201	Cham Albanian paramilitary/German Army troops
Massacre of Kalavryta	13 December 1943	Kalavryta	1,200+	German Army troops
5/42 Evzone Regiment dissolution	17 April 1944	Phocis, Central Greece	200+	ELAS troops	Colonel Dimitrios Psarros executed also.
Pyrgoi (former Katranitsa) massacre	20 April 1944	Pyrgoi	346	German Army troops
Executions of Kaisariani	1 May 1944	Kaisariani	200	German Army troops
Distomo massacre	10 June 1944	Distomo	218	German SS troops
Massacre of Pikermi	21 July 1944	Pikermi	54	German Army troops
Massacre of Mousiotitsa	25 July 1943	Mousiotitsa	153	German SS troops
Executions of Kokkinia	17 August 1944	Kokkinia	300+	German Army troops/Security Battalions
Holocaust of Kedros	22 August 1944	Amari Valley	164	German Army troops
The Massacre of Chortiatis	2 September 1944	Chortiatis	146	German Army troops	Perpetrated by Friedrich Schubert
Executions of Meligalas	16 September 1944	Meligalas	c.1,000	ELAS troops	All victims were members of the Security Battalions, Greek military units assisting the Germans.
Executions of ULEN/Peristeri	December 1944 (Dekemvriana)	Athens	3,000+ (unknown exactly)	OPLA, other minor communist groups

Post War

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Perpetrators	Notes
Athens Polytechnic uprising	November 1973	Athens	24, many injured	Greek military junta	Data based on the Work of Leonidas Kallivretakis from "“Πολυτεχνείο ’73: Το ζήτημα των θυμάτων: Νεκροί και τραυματίες,” Πολυτεχνείο ’73: ρεπορτάζ με την Ιστορία, vol. 2, Αθήνα: Eκδόσεις Φιλιππότη, 2004, pp. 38-55." More info (in Greek) can be found in http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/8782

References

1. Clair, William St. (2008). That Greece might still be free (New ed., rev., corr., and with additional ill. and updated bibliography. ed.). Cambridge: Open Book Publ. pp. 4–5. ISBN 9781906924003.
2. Charles Vellay, L'irrédentisme hellénique, 1913, 329 pages. page 131: