User:Dainomite/Geopolitical interests

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1830-1870 - Circassian genocide - the Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 80–97% of the Muslim Circassian population, around 800,000–1,500,000 people, from their homeland Circassia in the aftermath of the Russo-Circassian War (1763–1864).

1890s - Hamidian massacres - massacres of 300,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s.
1913-1922 - Greek genocide - systematic killing of 900,000 Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia which was carried out (1914–1922) through massacres, forced deportations involving death marches through the Syrian Desert, expulsions, summary executions, and the destruction of Eastern Orthodox cultural, historical, and religious monuments.
1915–1917 - Armenian genocide - the systematic mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I through mass executions, death marches leading to the Syrian Desert, and the forced Islamization of Armenian women and children.
1915 - Sayfo/Assyrian Genocide - systematic killing of 1/2 of the Assyrian population, 250,000 deaths.
1923 - Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
1955 - Istanbul pogrom - a series of organized mob attacks directed primarily at Istanbul's Greek minority on 6–7 September 1955. Armenians and Jews were also harmed.

Territorial losses of Finland to Soviet Union in conclusion to World War II; Porkkala was returned in 1956.
Kaliningrab Oblast
Map of Sakhalin with parallels showing the division at the 50th parallel north with the Karafuto Prefecture highlighted in red
Kuril Islands