Breaking ground for a new settlement - Chios
Triumphal Greek's Arch for the ceremony around the breaking of the ground for the construction of a new village on the Island of Chios, at this point under Ottoman Turkish control. The island is in the Aegean Sea only 5 miles off the coast of Asia Minor. Misfortune had struck the island in 1881, when an earthquake, estimated as 6.5 on the Richter scale damaged a large portion of the island's buildings. New settlements such as the one pictured were constructed in efforts uniting Turkish, Greek and international governments
Picture No
10415529
Media ID
46521650
Size
4989px x 3162px
(6.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1910
