Dilessi murders

The Dilessi murders were committed in 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 Great Britain.

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

Further reading

  • 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


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