Between Ethnic Hatreds and Ethnoreligious Solidarity: Greek-Slavic Interactions in Thessaloniki and Trabzon (1916–1918)

Historiography quite rightly emphasizes the sharp aggravation of ethnic conflicts during and after the First World War, but little attention is paid to the reverse process of reconciliation of interethnic contradictions on the basis of unification against a common enemy. The article examines the trends towards improving Greek–Slavic relations in Trebizond and Thessaloniki in 1916–1918. Signs of gradual reconciliation on the basis of pan-Orthodox and pan-Slavic community are especially evident against the background of prewar deterioration and are further developed in the postwar period.