List of places burned during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) is a list of places totally or partly burned during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).
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List of places burned during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Name | Date | Pre-war population | Deaths | Notes | ||||||||||||||||
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Kilkis | July 4, 1913 | 13,000 | 74 | Totally ruined. | ||||||||||||||||
Serres | July 11, 1913 | 30,000 | 200 | 4,000 of the 6,000 houses destroyed. | ||||||||||||||||
Doxato | July 13, 1913 | 500 | Only 30 of the 270 Greek houses were left intact. | |||||||||||||||||
Giannitsa | 1912 | Turkish part of the town was burned down. | ||||||||||||||||||
Nigrita | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strumica | August 21–23, 1913 | Turkish and Greek part of the town burned. | ||||||||||||||||||
Havsa | 1912 | 10 | Turkish quarter almost entirely burnt. | |||||||||||||||||
Yenimuhacir | July 7, 1913 | 2,132 | 450 | all 420 houses burned of the Bulgarian village Bulgarköy near Keşan. | ||||||||||||||||
Osmanlı | 1913 | all 114 houses destroyed of the Bulgarian village Osmanlı near Havsa. | ||||||||||||||||||
Hasköy | 1912 | Only 25 of 55 houses of the Turkish part of the village survived. |
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Approximate locations
Bibliography
- International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars (1914). Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.