After the great massacre of Morean Turks and Albanians in 1821, pseudo-hellenic kingdom expanded it`s territories once again in 1897 with the inclusion of the Crete to the Greece.

Around ~15.000 people in Crete has been massacred in just few months in 1897 `till Turkish fleet arrives to the island to rescue the few remaining survivors. About half of these people was Greek speaking muslims and the rest was Turks. It might be difficult to believe today but yes, there was a sizable Greek muslim community for centuries before their orthodox brethren massacred most of them in 1897.

So, only the ones who were "lucky" to be forcefully baptized was able to stay alive `till Turkish fleet reached to the island and then they escaped with it to the village of Bodrum in Anatolia.

After the massacres of 1897, Crete became an autonomous state within the Ottoman Empire and ruled by the son of Greece`s Bavarian German king and later Crete officially became Greek territory at 1913.

Here are some pictures from US congress library archives which was taken in 1897;

Restless Athens - waiting for the newspapers - War of 1897, Greece;



Patriotic demonstration - bound for the Palace - 1897, Athens, Greece;



Recruits for the Army, before the Temple of Theseus, 1897, Athens, Greece;



Greek irregular volunteers on the frontier, 1897, Thessaly, Greece;



German volunteers from the homeland of Bavarian king, raw recruits for the Greek forces, War of 1897;



Armed monks gathering wood for the Meteora monasteries, 1897, Crete;



Insurgents from Sparta - guarding the mountain pass, Grecian frontier, 1897;



Irregulars on the frontier--awaiting an attack--Graeco-Turkish War, 1897;



The San Francisco call, issue of February 19, 1897;

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...19/ed-1/seq-1/


Turkish officials and little "sole survivor" of a village of 350 people, 1897, Candia, Crete;