Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Turkish forces hurried...to overtake the Greeks before they could decimate all Western Anatolia 'by fire and sword'...Already most of the tons in its path were in ruins...One third of Ushak no longer existed. Alashehir was no more than a dark scorched cavity, defacing the hillside. Village after village had been reduced to an ash-heap. Out of the eighteen thousand buildings in the historic holy city of Manisa, only five hundred remained."...Everywhere the Greek troops, especially those from Anatolia...carried off Christian families that their quarters too might be burned and not a roof left for the advancing Turks...They pillaged and destroyed and raped and butchered...permeating the atmosphere...was the stench of unburied bodies, of charred human and animal flesh." }
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- books?id=-G-iBD_fW4IC&pg=PT196 quote "The Turkish forces hurried...to overtake the Greeks before they could decimate all Western Anatolia 'by fire and sword'...Already most of the tons in its path were in ruins...One third of Ushak no longer existed. Alashehir was no more than a dark scorched cavity, defacing the hillside. Village after village had been reduced to an ash-heap. Out of the eighteen thousand buildings in the historic holy city of Manisa, only five hundred remained."...Everywhere the Greek troops, especially those from Anatolia...carried off Christian families that their quarters too might be burned and not a roof left for the advancing Turks...They pillaged and destroyed and raped and butchered...permeating the atmosphere...was the stench of unburied bodies, of charred human and animal flesh.".