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The Greek War of Independence
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Greek Territory, 1832-1947, a map from Wikipedia [pic]
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Battle at Navarin Bay, the last battle of sailing ships, 1827 [pic]
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King Otto
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King Otto arrives in Greece, 1833, an artist's imagination [pic]
The Greeks had been under Ottoman rule since the mid-1400s. Islamic law applied only to Muslims, with the Greek Orthodox Church allowed to function and Greeks free to worship as they pleased and to maintain their own culture and language. The Greeks saw the Ottoman Turks as inferior, and they looked back at what they considered the glories of ancient Greece. In …show more content…
With Russian help a revolt started in 1770, which failed. |
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| |Inspired by the French revolution and the heroic poems (thourios) of Rigas Feraios, the Greeks did not give up, and the secret society Philiki Eteria |
| |("Friendly Union") was founded in 1814 in Odessa of Russia by Nikolaos Skoufas, Emmanuel Xanthos and Antonios Tsakalof. Weapons and funds were collected, |
| |and help was sent from Greeks in exile as well as other countries on the Balkan and the Mediterranean sea. …show more content…
In the Peloponnese the Archbishop of Patras Paleon |
| |Patron Germanos lead the uprising in 23 of March 1821. |
| |The Greek army of the Peloponesse was lead by Theodoros Kolokotronis. Other famous Greek leaders of the revoloution where Georgios Karaiskakis, |
| |Athanassios Diakos, Odysseas Androutsos, Grigorios Dikaios or Papaflessas, while in the seas, Konstantinos Kanaris, Laskarina bouboulina and Andreas |
| |Miaoulis fight the Turkish fleat with their ships. |
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