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The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one
The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one Italian
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and three English
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aristocrats
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were murdered at Dilesi ( gr, Δήλεσι), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia
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, by Greek
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brigand
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s while touring the area near Marathon
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. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and Great Britain.
Further reading
* Contemporary report on the incident by Ioannes Gennadius, founder of theGennadius Library
The Gennadius Library ( el, Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη), also known as the Gennadeion, is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern tim ...
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* First modern monograph on the subject by Romilly James Heald Jenkins
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