A flotilla organized by Asa Jennings rescued over three hundred thousand survivors of a disaster in this city chronicled in a book by US Consul George Horton. Following its liberation, French soldiers were ordered not to intervene as a mob lynched this city’s metropolitan bishop. The mathematician Constantin Carathéodory founded a university in this city that was forced to close before ever taking students. Surrendering soldiers in this city were executed for refusing to shout “Long live” a soon-to-be (*) eight-term prime minister. A namesake zone around this city was granted to an occupying force in the Treaty of Sèvres (“SEV-ruh”). Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time opens by depicting British sailors trying to establish order on this city’s quai during an event likely ordered by Nureddin Pasha. For 10 points, a 1922 “great” fire destroyed what once predominantly Greek port city in Anatolia? ■END■
ANSWER: Smyrna [or İzmir]
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