The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one Italian and three Englisharistocrats were murdered at Dilesi (Greek: Δήλεσι), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia, by Greekbrigands while touring the area near Marathon. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and the United Kingdom.[1]
Notes on the recent murders by brigands in Greece. Cartwright. 1870. Contemporary report on the incident by Ioannes Gennadius, founder of the Gennadius Library.
Stevens, Crosby (1989). Ransom and Murder in Greece: Lord Muncaster's Journal, 1870. Lutterworth Press. ISBN9780718827526.
Referencesedit
^Tzanelli, Rodanthi (2002). "Unclaimed Colonies: Anglo-Greek Identities Through the Prism of the Dilessi/Marathon Murders (1870)". Journal of Historical Sociology. 15 (2): 169–191. doi:10.1111/1467-6443.00175.
January 01, 1970
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