The Mistra Massacre is one of the massacres that took place in the city of Mistra on the Peloponnese peninsula during the Greek War of Independence.

The uprising broke out in February 1770 following the arrival of Russian Admiral Alexei Orlov, commander of the Russian Imperial Navy, on the Mani Peninsula during the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) . Russian forces and Greek gangs occupied the south of the Peloponnese, captured Mistra, and began a massacre. The city suffered a heavy blow as a result of these events. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The British historian and jurist Edward Shepherd Creasy mentions this massacre in his work as follows:

“Mistra, in particular, was the scene of horrific atrocities. Four hundred Turks were murdered there in cold blood ; Ottoman children, torn from their mothers’ breasts, were carried to the tops of minarets and thrown down from there” [ 3 ]

Sources 

“MEZİSTRE” . TDV Islamic Encyclopedia . Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved January 30 , 2023 .

 Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (September 9, 2021). The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776–1848): Reappraisals and Comparisons . Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-42471-3 . Archived from the original on January 6, 2023. Retrieved January 30 , 2023 . 

 Creasy, Edward Shepherd (1858). History of the Ottoman Turks: From the Beginning of Their Empire to the Present Time, Chiefly Founded on Von Hammer (English). Richard Bentley. p.  277. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023 .