Editing Edremit, Balıkesir (section)

== History ==
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The modern city of Edremit is named after the ancient Greek city of [[Adramyttion]] ({{lang|grc|Ἀδραμύττιον}}) or Adramytteion (Ἀδραμύττειον), a city of [[Asia Minor]] on the coast of [[Aeolis]] which is in near city Modern [[Burhaniye]]

[[Alevism|Tahtacı Turkmen]], descendants of the army of Shah [[Ismail I]], settled in the mountains near Edremit after their defeat in the [[Battle of Chaldiran]] in 1514.{{sfnp|Ayliffe|2003|p=518}}

By 1819, [[Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn]] recorded that Edremit was only populated by "a few Greek fishermen".{{sfnp|Dearborn|1819|pp=51–52}} In 1912, the town had 6200 inhabitants, 1200 of which were [[Greeks]].{{sfnp|Pétridès|1912|loc=coll. 595-596}} At this time, the district had 19 Greek schools and roughly 600 pupils.{{sfnp|Dieterich|1918|p= 45}}

In May 1914, thousands of Muslim refugees who had fled from the [[Balkans]] arrived in the town of Edremit and proceeded to ransack the shops and homes of the town's Greek community. According to [[Arnold J. Toynbee]], the Ottoman government armed and organised the refugees. Many [[Greek refugees]] found refuge in the town church before fleeing to the harbour where they were then granted passage to the nearby Greek island of [[Lesbos]]. Turks continued to massacre or expel Greeks in the following months in surrounding villages as part of the wider [[Greek genocide]] throughout Turkey.{{sfnp|Milton|2009|pp=48–50}}

Amidst the [[Greek Summer Offensive]] of the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)|Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922]], Edremit was seized by the [[Army of Asia Minor]] on 19 June 1920 and a Turkish [[Turkish National Movement|Nationalist]] counterattack near the town was repelled.{{sfnmp|Kiminas|2009|1p=81|Erickson|2021|2p=63}} It remained under Greek control until their withdrawal in late August 1922, following which all remaining Greeks fled or were killed by the Turkish army.{{sfnp|Kiminas|2009|p=81}}