Salonika Incident
The Salonika Incident was a major diplomatic incident that broke out on 6 May 1876 after a mob murdered the consuls of France and Germany in the Ottoman city of Thessaloniki (then known as Salonika), Jules Moulin and Henry Abbott. After a young woman of Bulgarian and Christian origin, convert to Islam was kidnapped by a group of Christian men. An enraged mob attempted to retrieve the woman, and murdered Moulin and Abbott when it failed to find her. A diplomatic backlash ensued, leading to displays of force and to reforms in the Ottoman Empire.
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Salonika Incident
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1876-05-06T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
6 May 1876
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