After the Young Turk revolution ( 1908 ) the local Greek community was subject to wide scale boycott , as noted by the local British ambassador . Manisa was temporarily occupied by the Greek Army on May 26 , 1919 during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) , before finally being recaptured by the Turkish army on September 8 , 1922 . The retreating Greek army burned the city . Over ninety percent of Manisa was destroyed by the retreating Greek army as part of the scorched-earth policy . James Loder Park , the U.S. Vice-Consul in Constantinople at the time , who toured much of the devastated area immediately after the Greek evacuation , described the situation in the surrounding cities and towns of İzmir he has seen , as follows : " Manisa ... almost completely wiped out by fire ... 10,300 houses , 15 mosques , 2 baths , 2,278 shops , 19 hotels , 26 villas ... destroyed . " Patrick Balfour , 3rd Baron Kinross wrote : " Out of the eighteen thousand buildings in the historic holy city of Manisa , only five hundred remained . " Manisa was rebuilt and became the centre of Saruhan Province in 1923 under the new Turkish Republic . The province 's name was changed to Manisa , as was the city itself , in 1927
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