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Dilessi murders

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The brigands responsible for the murders are brought to Athens for trial, from The Illustrated London News

The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one Italian and three English aristocrats were murdered at Dilesi (Greek: Δήλεσι), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia, by Greek brigands while touring the area near Marathon. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and the United Kingdom.[1]

See also

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Josslyn Pennington, 5th Baron Muncaster

Further reading

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  • Notes on the recent murders by brigands in Greece. Cartwright. 1870. Contemporary report on the incident by Ioannes Gennadius, founder of the Gennadius Library.
  • The Dilessi murders. Prion. 1998-08-01. ISBN 9781853752803. First modern monograph on the subject by Romilly James Heald Jenkins.
  • Stevens, Crosby (1989). Ransom and Murder in Greece: Lord Muncaster's Journal, 1870. Lutterworth Press. ISBN 9780718827526.

References

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  1. ^ 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.