Battle of Aydın

Battle of Aydın
	Part of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)
	; A backstreet in the Turkish part of Aydın in the early 20th century
Date	June 27- July 4, 1919
Location	Aydın, Aidin Vilayet
Result	Greek victory Capture of the city;
Belligerents
Greece	Kuvva-i Milliye
Commanders and leaders
Georgios Kondilis ; Colonel Schinas; Colonel Stavrianopoulos	Yörük Ali Efe
Strength
2 regiments (~3,000 men)	1,920 infantry and 17 cavalry
Casualties and losses
	1,500 to 2,000

The Battle of Aydın (Modern Turkish: Aydın Savunması, literally: "The defence of Aydın", 27 June 1919 to 4 July 1919), was a series of wide-scale armed conflicts during the initial stage of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in and around the city of Aydın in western Turkey. The battle resulted in the burning of several quarters of the city (primarily Turkish, but also Greek) and massacres which resulted in the deaths of several thousand Turkish and Greek soldiers and civilians. The city of Aydın remained in ruins until it was re-captured by the Turkish army on 7 September 1922, at the end of the Greco-Turkish War.

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