List of massacres in Greece

|494 BC

|Argos

|6,000

|Sparta

|Argive survivors of the defeat at Sepeia burned alive in the sacred grove of Argos

|479 BC

|Olynthus

|All inhabitants killed

|Persian Empire

|

|465 BC

|Draviskos

|Athenian colonists

|Thracians

|Athenian colonists slain by Thracians.{{cite web | title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, DRABESKOS (Sdravik) Macedonia, Greece. | website=Perseus Digital Library | url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=drabeskos | language=la | access-date=2024-01-12}}

|431 BC

|Plataea

|150

|Plataea

|150 Theban POWs executed

|427 BC

|Plataea

|200

|Sparta

|200 Plataean and Athenian POWs executed

|427 BC

|Corcyra

|Unknown

|Corcyran popular party

|Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party

|427 BC

|Mytilene

|1,000

|Athens

|Ringleaders of the rebellion executed

|425 BC

|Peloponnese

|2,000

|Sparta

|2,000 Helot slaves executed by Sparta

|425 BC

|Corcyra

|Unknown

|Corcyran popular party

|Corcyran oligarchs executed by the popular party

|421 BC

|Scione

|All of Scione's men killed

|Athens

|Men killed, women and children enslaved

|417 BC

|Hysiae

|All male citizens of Hysiae killed

|Sparta

|

|416 BC

|Milos

|All Melian men killed

|Athens

|Women and children enslaved.

|413 BC

|Mycalessus

|All inhabitants of Mycalessus killed

|Thracian mercenaries of Athens

|

|361 BC

|Corcyra

|Unknown

|Athens

|Many Corcyrans killed

|December 335 BC

|Thebes

|6,000

|Macedonian Army

|The city was completely destroyed and 30,000 were enslaved

|315 BC

|Argos

|500

|Macedonian Army

|500 Argive senators burned alive

|313 BC

|Orchomenus

|Unknown

|Oligarchs supported by Macedon

|

|213 BC

|Messene

|200

|Demagogues supported by Macedon

|200 magistrates and their supporters killed

|184 BC

|Maroneia

|Unknown

|Macedonian Army

|Many Maronites killed

|167 BC

|Aetolia

|550

|Roman Army

|550 Aetolian leaders killed by Roman soldiers.

|146 BC

|Corinth

|All Corinthian men killed

|Roman Army

|Complete destruction of the city. Population partly massacred, partly enslaved.

|88 BC

|Asia (Roman province)

|80,000–150,000

|Kingdom of Pontus led by Mithridates VI

|Romans and Italians killed. Served as a casus belli for the First Mithridatic War.

|86 BC

|Athens

|Unknown

|Roman Army

|Population partly massacred and large parts of the city burned down.

|April 390

|Thessalonica

|7,000

|Late Roman army

|After orders of Emperor Theodosius I

|1171

|Constantinople, Genoese quarter

|Unknown

|Venetians

|Genoese victims. This was not the first time Venetian merchants had gotten out of hand. Given much freedom and power in their trade with the Empire, they had misused this freedom. In response, Emperor Manuel I cracked down on the Venetian merchants and this led to the Byzantine-Venetian war.

|April 1182

|Constantinople

|Unknown

|Usurper Andronikos Komnenos and a mob of his Greek, Eastern Christian supporters

|Massacre of Latins/Roman Catholics

|9–24 August 1185

|Thessalonica

|7,000

|Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily

|

|1204

|Constantinople

|Unknown

|Catholics/Crusaders

|Orthodox Christians, Constantinopolitans

|1296

|Constantinople

|Unknown

|Genoese

|Venetian civilian victims

|15 September 1461

|Lesbos

|300

|Ottoman Army

|300 Italian soldiers massacred by Ottoman Army under Mehmed II.

|March 1770

|Peloponnese, mainly Tripolitsa

|3,000-10,000 (plus 20,000 refugees)

|Albanian irregulars

|After the failure of Orlov Revolt.

|October 1798

|Preveza

|Unknown

|Albanian Muslims

|Complete destruction, devastation of the city. The biographer of Ali Pasha, Spyros Aravantinos, states that before the massacre, the population of Preveza was 16,000, while according to the traveler Henry Holland who visited the town in 1812 – fourteen years after the event – there were only 4,000 souls.{{Cite book|last=Παπασταύρος|first=Αναστάσιος Ι.|title=Αλή Πασάς – από λήσταρχος ηγεμόνας|publisher=Apeirotan|year=2013|pages=106|language=el|chapter=Ο ΧΑΛΑΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΕΒΕΖΑΣ|chapter-url=https://zsgiannina.gr/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/274-%CE%9F-%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%AD%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%B6%CE%B1%CF%82.pdf}}

|April–July 1821

|Occurred in Constantinople, but contemporary pogrom activities spread in parts of present-day Greece (Kos, Rhodes){{cite book|last=Clair|first=William St.|title=That Greece might still be free|year=2008|publisher=Open Book Publ.|location=Cambridge|isbn=9781906924003|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NphFnF2RRKUC|quote=massacred+1821+constantinople+greeks.|edition=New ed., rev., corr., and with additional ill. and updated bibliography.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NphFnF2RRKUC/page/n29 4]–5}}

|unknown

|Ottoman government

|

|19 August 1821

|Pylos

|3,000

|Greek irregular forces

|

|1 September 1821

|Samothrace

|1,000Charles Vellay, L'irrédentisme hellénique, 1913, 329 pages. page 131: [https://books.google.com/books?id=vMhDAAAAYAAJ&q=samothrace+massacre+1821]

|Ottoman army

|Complete destruction, devastation of the island.

|23 September 1821

|Tripolis

|6,000-15,000

|Greek irregular forces

|

|March 1822

|Chios

|20,000–52,000

|Ottoman government

|

|13 April 1822

|Naousa

|2,000

|Ottoman army

|

|7 June 1824

|Kasos

|500

|Ottoman-Egyptian army

|Some 2000 women and children taken and sold into slavery

|July 1824

|Psara

|7,000

|Ottoman army

|

|April 1826

|Messolonghi

|8,000

|Ottoman/Egyptian army

|Messolonghi received the honorary title of Hiera Polis (Sacred City) by the Greek state.

|

| 10 October 1912

| Servia, Greece

|117

|Ottoman Army

|

| 30 June 1913

| Doxato

|500{{cite book|last1=Kramer|first1=Alan|title=Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War|date=2008|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780191580116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Gbgs1XFKTcC&pg=PT142|language=en}}

|Turkish irregulars[http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/carnegie/chapter2_2.html Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars, published by the Endowment Washington, D.C. 1914, p. 83] "While emphasizing the heavy responsibility which falls on the Bulgarian officers for this catastrophe, we do not hesitate to conclude that the massacre at Doxato was a Turkish and not a Bulgarian atrocity."{{cite book|title=The Nation and Athenæum|date=1914|publisher=Nation Publishing Company Limited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfg-AQAAIAAJ&q=doxato+massacre|language=en}}

|

|4 July 1913

|Kilkis

|74

|

|{{Cite journal|date=April 1915|title=Report of the International Commission to inquire into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars. [Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education, Publication No. 4.] (Washington, D. C.: Published by the Endowment. 1914. Pp. 413.)|journal=The American Historical Review|doi=10.1086/ahr/20.3.638|issn=1937-5239}}{{Cite book|last=Hooton|first=E. R.|title=Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913|publisher=Fonthill Media|year=2014}}

| 23 and 24 June 1941

| Crete

|80+

|German paratroopers

|

| 2 June 1941

| Crete

|60

|German paratroopers

|

| 2 June 1941 and 1 August 1941

| Western Crete

|180+

|German paratroopers

|

| 3 June 1941

| Western Crete

|180

|German Army troops

|

|28–29 September 1941

|Doxato

|200+

|Bulgarian Royal Army

|

|16–17 February 1943

|Domenikon

|150

|Italian Royal Army

|

|March 1943-June 1944

|Feneos

|no less than 1,071

|mainly OPLA

|The local monastery functioned as a concentration camp.

|14–16 September 1943

|Viannos and Ierapetra regions

|500+

|Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller leading the 65th Regiment of the 22nd Luftlande Infanterie-Division

|

|21 September 1943

|Kefalonia, Greece

|5,000

|German Army troops

|Dramatized in the film Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

|16 August 1943

|Kommeno

|317

|German Army troops

|

|19–29 September 1943

|Paramythia

|201

|Cham Albanian paramilitary/German Army troops

|

|3 October 1943

|Ligiades

|83

|German Army troops

|

|8 October 1943

|Kallikratis

|30+

|Jagdkommando Schubert/German Army troops

|

|13 December 1943

|Kalavryta

|693

|German Army troops

|

|18 December 1943

|Drakeia, Mount Pelion

|115

|4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division

|

|17 April 1944

|Phocis, Central Greece

|200+

|ELAS troops

|Colonel Dimitrios Psarros also executed.

|23 to 24 April 1944

|Pyrgoi

|327

|German Army troops

|{{Cite web |last=Gkaidatzis |first=Rafail |date=23 April 2024 |title=Η Σφαγή των Πύργων: 80 χρόνια από το δεύτερο μεγαλύτερο ολοκαύτωμα των Ναζί στην Ελλάδα |url=https://parallaximag.gr/epikairotita/greece/i-sfagi-ton-pyrgon-80-chronia-apo-to-deytero-megalytero-olokaytoma-ton-nazi-stin-ellada |access-date=13 December 2024 |website=parallaximag.gr |language=el}}

|1 May 1944

|Kaisariani

|200

|German Army troops

|

|10 June 1944

|Distomo

|218

|German SS troops

|

|21 July 1944

|Pikermi

|54

|German Army troops

|54 Greek civilians were executed by the German occupation force in Pikermi, as retaliation for an attack by the resistance group ELAS.{{Cite web |date=21 July 2024 |title=21 Ιουλίου 1944: H θυσία των "54" στο Πικέρμι |url=https://www.ertnews.gr/anadromes/21-ioylioy-1944-h-thysia-ton-54-sto-pikermi/ |access-date=13 December 2024 |website=ertnews.gr |language=el}}

|25 July 1943

|Mousiotitsa

|153

|German Army troops

|

|17 August 1944

|Kokkinia

|300+

|German Army troops/Security Battalions

|

|14 August 1944

|Skourvoula, Crete

|36+

|German Army troops

|

|22 August 1944

|Amari Valley

|164

|German Army troops

|

|28 August 1944

|Malathyros, Crete

|61

|German Army troops

|

|2 September 1944

|Chortiatis

| 146

|German Army troops

|Perpetrated by Friedrich Schubert

|16 September 1944

|Meligalas

|c.1,000

|ELAS troops

|

|29 September 1944

|Aigaleo

|65 official number,{{Cite web |last=Δεδούση |first=Μαρία |date=2022-09-29 |title=Σαν σήμερα: 29 Σεπτεμβρίου - Το Ολοκαύτωμα του Αιγάλεω, ακόμη μια ατιμώρητη σφαγή αθώων |url=https://www.cnn.gr/focus/story/330363/san-simera-29-septemvriou-to-olokaytoma-tou-aigaleo-akomi-mia-atimoriti-sfagi-athoon |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=CNN.gr |language=el}} estimates up to 150{{Cite web |title=Τα θύματα εκ της βαρβάρου επιδρομής εις το Πυριτιδοποιείον – Οι νεκροί ανέρχονται εις εκατόν πενήντα |url=http://efimeris.nlg.gr/ns/pdfwin_ftr.asp?c=64&pageid=93&id=-1&s=0&STEMTYPE=0&STEM_WORD_PHONETIC_IDS=ARsASdASZASRAScASRASMASXASYASXASRASNASHASX&CropPDF=0 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=efimeris.nlg.gr |language=el}}

|German Army troops

|

|December 1944 (Dekemvriana)

|Athens

|3,000+ (unknown exactly)

|OPLA, other minor communist groups

|