It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria - the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire - located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension is high between the two. When a plague arrives - brought either by Muslim pilgrims returning from the Mecca, or by merchant vessels coming from Alexandria - the island revolts.
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