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The Massacre of the Morea refers to the systematic killing of the Muslim population of the Morea Peninsula during the Greek War of Independence, which began in 1821. Mora During the Morea Revolt of 1821–1830, which resulted in Greek independence, tens of thousands of Turks and a small number of Jews who had lived in the Peloponnese for centuries were massacred en masse by Greek rebels, without regard to gender or age. The revolt evolved from a simple uprising into an ethnic and religious cleansi