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This popular narrative traces the fortunes of the Greeks in Ionia, from the Trojan War, through archaic colonisation, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, and life under Rome, Byzantium, and Seljuk, then Ottoman domination, ending with the population transfer of 1923. A lot of ground is covered in the book's pages, but too often this means that the text becomes essentially a potted history of wider political events (the Byzantine section, in particular becomes an ultra-concise reign by reign summary) leaving less time to deal with the history and culture of the specifically Greek inhabitants of Asia Minor.