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What happened to the Jews in Greece

107 events, 88 BC to 2024 AD

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1st century BC

  1. c. 88 BC Mithridates seizes Jewish silver deposited on Kos · Kos, Greece

5th century

  1. 408 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Crete under Theodosius II · Crete, Greece

8th century

  1. 723 AD Byzantine ban on free exercise of Jewish religion in Greece · Greece

11th century

  1. 1062 AD Expulsion decree against recently settled Jews of Chios · Chios, Greece

12th century

  1. 1147 AD Roger of Sicily deports Theban Jewish silk-weavers · Thebes, Greece
  2. c. 1200–1250 AD Persecutions of Jews in Ioannina under the despotate of Epirus · Ioannina, Greece

13th century

  1. 1223–1230 AD Anti-Jewish policy and confiscations under Theodore Ducas Angelus · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece

14th century

  1. 1346 AD Genoese humiliating obligations imposed on Chios Jews · Chios, Greece
  2. 1346 AD Yellow hat decree for Jews of Chios · Chios, Greece
  3. 1387 AD Venetian tax on Cretan Jews raised to 2,500 hyperperes · Crete, Greece
  4. 1392–1395 AD Jews ordered to supply guards for ramparts near the ghetto · Crete, Greece
  5. 1395 AD Venetian tax on Cretan Jews raised to 3,000 hyperperes · Crete, Greece
  6. 1398 AD Interest cap of 12 per cent on Khania Jews · Chania, Greece

15th century

  1. c. 1401–1500 AD Relocation of Arta's Jews to Istanbul (sürgün) · Arta, Greece
  2. 1402 AD Restriction of Negropont Jews to their own quarter · Chalcis (Negropont), Greece
  3. 1403 AD Jews made to pay half the cost of repairing Candia's walls · Heraklion (Candia), Greece
  4. 1406 AD Venice orders yellow badge for Jews of Corfu · Corfu, Greece
  5. 1408 AD Limit on Jewish land ownership in Corfu · Corfu, Greece
  6. 1408 AD Venetian Senate repeals Corfu badge decree · Corfu, Greece
  7. 1410 AD Forced loans demanded of Cretan Jews by the Venetian Senate · Crete, Greece
  8. 1425 AD Corfu Jews compelled to tear down their houses · Corfu, Greece
  9. 1431 AD Oppressive taxes laid on Cretan Jews (1431) · Crete, Greece
  10. 1432 AD Oppressive taxes laid on Cretan Jews (1432) · Crete, Greece
  11. 1433 AD Jews of Crete barred from brokerage · Crete, Greece
  12. 1439 AD Jews burdened with annual war payment of 4,000 ducats · Crete, Greece
  13. 1449 AD Khania Jews barred from lending on mortgages · Chania, Greece
  14. 1456 AD Mehmed II lets Athenians bar Jewish residence · Athens, Greece
  15. 1465 AD Burning of the Jewish quarter of Mistra · Mystras (Mistra), Greece
  16. 1465 AD Oppressive taxes laid on Cretan Jews (1465) · Crete, Greece
  17. 1480 AD Jewish houses demolished and synagogue abandoned in Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  18. 1481–1482 AD Earthquakes destroy the Jewish quarter of Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  19. 1485 AD Oppressive taxes laid on Cretan Jews (1485) · Crete, Greece
  20. 1498 AD Venice offers privileges to settlers on Zakynthos · Zakynthos, Greece
  21. c. 1498–1500 AD Knights of St. John order expulsion of unbaptized Jews from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  22. c. 1500–1522 AD Captured Jews enslaved on Rhodes by the Knights · Rhodes, Greece

16th century

  1. 1502 AD Banishment of the Jews of Kos by the Knights of Rhodes · Kos, Greece
  2. 1502 AD D'Aubusson decrees expulsion of the Jews from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  3. 1532 AD Jews of Coron, Modon and Patras plundered and captured · Koroni (Coron), Greece

17th century

  1. 1612 AD False accusation against Ioannina Jews over Bishop Dionysios · Ioannina, Greece
  2. 1622 AD Corfu Jews confined to a special quarter · Corfu, Greece
  3. 1656 AD Captain of Corfu levies 10,000 reals on Jews · Corfu, Greece
  4. 1679–1680 AD Law-practice ban extended to Corfu, then withdrawn · Corfu, Greece

18th century

  1. 1770 AD Ottoman forces devastate Jewish communities after Russian capture of coast towns · Patras, Greece
  2. 1774 AD Order to remove Jewish lawyers from court in Corfu · Corfu, Greece
  3. 1788–1822 AD Ali Pasha's heavy taxation of wealthy Jews · Ioannina, Greece
  4. 1797–1799 AD Full citizenship for Jews under French rule of Corfu · Corfu, Greece

19th century

  1. 1805–1815 AD Full citizenship for Jews under renewed French rule of Corfu · Corfu, Greece
  2. 1815–1863 AD Jews of Corfu lose rights under British protectorate · Corfu, Greece
  3. 1815–1864 AD English rule bars Jews from citizenship · Zakynthos, Greece
  4. 1821 AD Killing of Jews by Greek insurgents · Agrinio (Vrachori), Greece
  5. 1821 AD Massacre of Jews in the Peloponnesus during the Greek revolt · Peloponnese, Greece
  6. 1821 AD Siege of Tripolitsa · Tripoli (Tripolitsa), Greece
  7. 1821–1829 AD Destruction of Athens Jewish community in Greek uprising · Athens, Greece
  8. 1840 AD Rhodes blood libel · Rhodes, Greece
  9. 1840 AD Sultan's firman voids ritual murder accusations · Rhodes, Greece
  10. 1847 AD Mob sacks house of David Pacifico in Athens · Athens, Greece
  11. 1850 AD Ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Kos · Kos, Greece
  12. 1851 AD Blood libel against Ioannina Jewish community · Ioannina, Greece
  13. 1851 AD Mutilation of a Jewish corpse at Kos · Kos, Greece
  14. 1852 AD Athens municipality rescinds synagogue site gift · Athens, Greece
  15. 1862 AD Ghetto gates torn down in Zante · Zakynthos, Greece
  16. 1864 AD Anti-Jewish riots after annexation to Greece · Corfu, Greece
  17. c. 1864 AD Full civil and political rights after annexation to Greece · Corfu, Greece
  18. 1864 AD Jews of Zante granted civil and political rights · Zakynthos, Greece
  19. 1872 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Ioannina · Ioannina, Greece
  20. 1873 AD Ritual murder accusation against the Jews of Khania · Chania, Greece
  21. 1891 AD Anti-Jewish excesses in Zante · Zakynthos, Greece
  22. 1891 AD Ritual murder libel in Corfu forces Jews to flee · Corfu, Greece
  23. 1891 AD Violence against Jews in Corfu · Corfu, Greece
  24. 1892 AD Blood libel in Chios · Chios, Greece
  25. 1897 AD Anti-Jewish riots in Thessaly after the war with Turkey · Thessaly, Greece
  26. 1897 AD Greek hostility toward Jews during Greco-Turkish war · Chios, Greece
  27. 1897 AD Larissa Jews accused of plundering during Greco-Turkish war · Larissa, Greece

20th century

  1. c. 1919 AD Expulsion of Jewish newcomers from Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  2. 1924 AD Sunday work ban in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  3. 1931 AD Campbell pogrom · Thessaloniki, Greece
  4. 1938 AD Italian racial laws imposed on Jews of Kos · Kos, Greece
  5. 1941 AD Arrest of Salonika Jewish community leaders · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  6. 1941 AD Confiscation of Jewish apartments in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  7. 1941 AD Plunder of Salonika Jewish books and manuscripts · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  8. c. 1942 AD Confiscation of Jewish factories and groceries in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  9. c. 1942 AD Destruction of the Jewish cemetery of Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  10. 1942 AD Forced labor of Salonika Jewish men · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  11. 1943 AD Agreement to surrender Jews of Macedonia and Thrace for deportation · North Macedonia and elsewhere
  12. 1943 AD Deportation of Jews from Thracian and Macedonian provincial towns · Thrace, Greece
  13. 1943 AD Deportation of Macedonian and Thracian Jews to death camps · North Macedonia and elsewhere
  14. 1943 AD Deportation of the Menashe family from Chios to Salonika · Chios, Greece
  15. 1943 AD Deportations from Salonika and Thrace · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  16. 1943 AD Expulsion from trade unions and capital declaration in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  17. 1943 AD First transports from Salonika to Auschwitz · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  18. 1943 AD From March 3-March 22, Bulgarian occupation authorities deport 11,343 Jews from… · Thrace, Greece and elsewhere
  19. 1943 AD Gestapo arrests and expropriation in Athens · Athens, Greece
  20. 1943 AD Ghetto established in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  21. 1943 AD Jewish badge imposed in Greece · Greece
  22. 1943 AD Order for Athens Jews to register at synagogue · Athens, Greece
  23. 1943 AD Racial restrictions and yellow badge in Salonika · Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece
  24. 1944 AD 1944: Deportation of Jews from the Island of Rhodes · Rhodes, Greece
  25. 1944 AD Arrest and deportation of Arta's Jews to Auschwitz · Arta, Greece
  26. 1944 AD Deportation of Corfu Jews to Auschwitz · Corfu, Greece
  27. 1944 AD Deportation of Ioannina Jews to Auschwitz · Ioannina, Greece
  28. 1944 AD Deportation of the Jews of Kos to Auschwitz · Kos, Greece
  29. 1944 AD First transport from Athens to Auschwitz · Athens, Greece
  30. 1944 AD Greek Jews in Rhodes are deported to Auschwitz · Rhodes, Greece
  31. 1944–1945 AD Anti-Jewish laws repealed in Greece · Greece
  32. c. 1980–1989 AD Damage to the Corfu synagogue doors · Corfu, Greece
  33. c. 1980–1989 AD Holocaust memorial in Larissa defaced · Larissa, Greece

21st century

  1. 2024 AD Attack on Synagogue · Athens, Greece

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