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Smyrna 1922
My grandfather, George Magarian, born in 1895, educated at the American College at Konia, Turkey and, later, director of the Konya YMCA, filmed Smyrna, Turkey, immediately after it's genocidal destruction.
"The Great Fire of Smyrna is the name commonly given to the fire that ravaged Izmir/Smyrna from 13 to 17 September 1922. Turkish armed forces systematically burned the city and killed Greek and Armenian inhabitants. This is based on extensive eyewitness evidence from Western troops sent to Smyrna during the evacuation, foreign diplomats/relief workers based at Smyrna and Turkish sources." - www.Wikipedia.org
The resulting 16mm edited nitrate film was hidden in my grandmother's apartment in NYC for 60 years. I was lucky to transfer it to digital before it completely disintegrates. -Robert Davidian 5 March 2008
Length: 608
Rating: 4.50 (57 ratings)
Tags: Smyrna Burning 1922 Armenian Genocide Greek Turkish Turkey Robert Davidian
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Smyrna 1922
"One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race."
US. Consul at Smyrna, George Horton
The Smyrna affair...has been somehow soft-pedaled and almost expunged from the memory of present day man."
Henry Miller
It's because of the truth of the Henry Miller statement that I commemorate Symrna & it victims by highlighting the 1978 Greek film by Nikos Koundouros called "1922", which tries to give some idea of what happened to it's Greek & Armenian population. No fictional film can convey the real horrors of what really happen there, yet even so the film is so harrowing that the only scene I can really show is this clip of where a Greek in hiding goes to hand himself over to a Turkish general. For further accounts of this all but forgotten tragedy, I recommend the Marjorie Housepian Dobkin book "Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City", and also the book "The Blight of Asia" written by George Horton, who was the American Consul at the time & an eyewitness to the terrible events.
Length: 169
Rating: 4.40 (7 ratings)
Tags: Smyrna Izmir Asia Minor 1922 Greek Greece bellydance Hellas Hellenic
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Miserlou-Girls of Smyrna(Izmir) [Mix]
This is a purely Smyrna-İzmir song despite the claims refering to be an Egypt song.This song was composed by an Egyptian Musician ,Mısırlı İbrahim Efendi who was originally a Jew named Abraham Levi living in İzmir.Against uncertain opinions,this song firstly was composed in Turkish with very very high probability or in Arabic.And the song was loved a lot in that time's İzmir and translated to Greek language.And A Greek named Mihalis Patrinas who immigrated to the USA in 1908 took this song to the USA and made it famous there.After a long time,in 1960s,Dick Dale,an American guitarist made an instrumental version as Miserlou.As you can understand from the name,it was composed for an Egyptian girl,Mısırlı.Then later,this song was used a Generic music of a 1994 Hollywood producted Quentin Tarantino film,Pulp Fiction that Uma Thurman and John Travolta shared the main characters,in 1998 it was again a soundtrack for another Hollywood film,Taxi.Recently American Music group Black Eyed Peas sings this music as a new name after a century-Pump It!And on the other hand in Greece,this song was taken by the Turkish-Greek population Exchange to Pireaus by Greek immigrants from Smyrna in 1923.And for many years,it was sung by the Rebetiko groups in the Cafe Amans of Athens.In 1970s,Glykeria version made this song popular again all around Greece and in 2004,famous Greek singer Anna Vissi sang Miserlou at the opening ceremony of Olympic Games.In 2005,Athinaiki kompania gave a new version of the same song in Taximi tune.Also there is more version by Greek singers as Eleni Tsaligopoulo.In Turkey,this song was remembered again with Zeki Müren in 1970s with different lyrics of the same music named as Yaralı Gönül(Injured Heart).Recently in 2005,Turkish singer Pamela Spence adopted the song from Black Eyed Peas with Turkish lyrics again.
1.Athinaiki Kompania
2.Glykeria
3.Zeki Müren
4.Stereo Mike - Eleni Tsaligopoulou - Pump It
Length: 164
Rating: 5.00 (20 ratings)
Tags: smyrna izmir smyrni miserlou mısırlı yaralı gönül pump it black eyed peas turkey greece the usa dick dale zeki müren
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Smyrna - Deus Forte no Aviva
Smyrna no 1º" Aviva Serra da Mantiqueira" em Santo Antonio do Pinhal - SP
Length: 328
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: Smyrna Deus Forte Aviva Banda Oficina g3
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Songs of Smyrna /Izmir Greek Turkish Songs
One of the most beloved and well known songs of the Smyrna Greeks was "Ti Se Meli Esenane" ("What's it to you?"). Of the versions presented here the first three were recorded in Greece and the last two in the USA. they all differ slightly in text and rhythmic subdivisions. The later American version by Angeliki Karayianni inlcudes the line "what's it matter to you what I smoke; "Lucky Strike" or "Camel" or "Melahrino" an obvious reference to the singers American environment. The surprising jazz bepop version (thanks to Bob G for the discovery) was recorded twice by the great Slim Gaillard who grew up in Detroit, MI, home to a large and active Greek American community. Some say he was the son of a Greek father and an aFro Cuban mother. Other earlier versions recorded in the US in the 1920s but not included here are those by Marika Papagika and Kyria Amalia.
Length: 604
Rating: 5.00 (12 ratings)
Tags: Greek Turkish Greece Turkey Istanbul Constantinople Izmir Smyrna rebetiko rembetiko cafe aman smyrneika Dalgas Vidalis Vezos Sirtos Hasapikos Tsiftetelli Cifte telli music dance Greek-American
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Visiting Teen Bitten By Shark In New Smyrna
A 13-year-old girl was bitten by a shark Tuesday in New Smyrna Beach.
Emma Klopchin traveled from New York to Florida to visit extended family. She was swimming south of the Flagler Avenue beach entrance in chest deep water when she was bitten in the right leg.
Length: 110
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: WESH News new smyrna beach shark bite little girl 13 year old
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Smyrna - izmir: In Memory of cosmopolitical Smyrna
"I'm going to smash glasses"
A "tsifteteli" in the Kiourdi scale recorded in Athens after 1922.
All pictures originate without exception from Smyrna. They reflect the multi-ethnical landscape, show importend buildings and sights of Smyrna before 1922. You also see the different quarters, parts and suburbs of the city, like "Karatas - Melantia", "Göztepe - Enopi", "Pagos - Kadifekale", "Karsiyaka - Kordelio", "Kokaryali" (Near of Göztepe), "Buca" and "Bornova - Bournobat".
The whole Greeks, Armenians and the most of Levantiner left the city 1922 and in the following years. Most Jews of Smyrna emigrated, after Israel was created.
Enjoy beautiful pictures and moving music! If you know more about the singer and the recording, please write it!
To more information about the pictures and the cosmopolitical history of Smyrna please visit:
http://www.levantine.plus.com/images.htm
Length: 191
Rating: 5.00 (4 ratings)
Tags: izmir smyrna göztepe karatas rembetiko turkey turkei turkish türkiye simirni asiaminor kleinasien anatolien bizans Μικρασιατικη Σμύρνη Έλληνες Ελλάδα Τουρκία konak buca greek kadifekale bornova karsiyaka pagos melantia asia minor st.policarp ege balcova sirinyer yali rembetika levant levante levantiner boyoz kokorec adacayi fuarSMYRNH Μικρά Ασία Τούρκοι προδοσία Ιστορία Ελλάς Greece karagöl kemeralti rum efes ephesos varyant esrefpasa asansör
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Little New Smyrna 500 - Nathan Brinker
Nathan B. running Quater Midgets at Little New Smyrna Raceway. This guy is good...he just wasn't the greatest this one day. We are still proud of him and will always support his efforts.
Length: 207
Rating: 5.00 (1 ratings)
Tags: little new smyrna 500 nathan brinker quarter midgets racing
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