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Greek-Turkish Population Swap

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Bro History

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4929 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On today's episode, we discuss one of the most overlooked turning points of the 20th century, Greece and Turkey agreed to swap over 1.5 million people—Christians for Muslims—in what became the first large-scale, state-sanctioned population exchange. Also, marble skulls, Balkan giants, and why Americans are the loudest tourists on Earth. Links to our other stuff on the interwebs: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@BroHistory⁠ ⁠https://brohistory.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠ #329 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6

In my opinion, it's one of the most consequential events in the 20th century. And it's no one

0:37.1

never really talks about this.

0:52.3

What's going on, everyone, welcome to another episode of Bro History. It's Henry Zamota and Danny

0:58.0

of Del Jbar. What's up, my friend? How are you? Chillin, man. As per usual, how about yourself?

1:04.5

I'm doing well. How was Greece, my friend?

1:07.6

Yeah, man, it was awesome. So first of all, I didn't know that I wanted to go to Greece until I went to Greece.

1:13.8

I had very little expectations.

1:15.8

I was like, pumped about seeing the old shit, and it paid off.

1:20.3

The old shit is awesome there.

1:21.9

But, man, that country is cool.

1:25.0

It's nice.

1:25.8

It's the first Balkan country I've ever been to, and that was kind of

1:28.9

nice to fly over the Balkans and see it, and it's really rocky, and I didn't know what to expect.

1:34.9

I don't know why I thought the islands were going to be like tropical in nature. They're like

1:38.9

deserts. It's a dusty place in the middle of a beautiful ocean. But it was awesome. The people there were awesome.

1:45.9

The food was great. Shopping's great. There was a really nice wedding I went to. And I looked

1:51.7

damn good at that wedding too. It was like straight out of vogue. It was awesome. I got to send

1:56.1

you some pictures. But yeah, it was fantastic.

2:02.5

Where did you go?

2:05.7

You went to Athens and then you went to some of the islands, right?

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