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  2. Greek War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    In the city of Smyrna (modern İzmir, Turkey), which until 1922 was a mostly Greek city, Ottoman soldiers drawn from the interior of Anatolia on their way to fight in either Greece or Moldavia/Wallachia, staged a pogrom in June 1821 against the Greeks, leading Gordon to write: "3,000 ruffians assailed the Greek quarter, plundered the houses and ...

  3. Election to the Throne of Greece (1822–1832) - Wikipedia

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    During their time in Greece, the insurgents were able to achieve new military successes and liberate additional regions that were still occupied by the Ottomans. In response, the Porte requested that the powers reconsider the treaties that had been agreed upon through the signing of the Adrianople Peace on September 25. [66] Charles of Bavaria

  4. Megali Idea - Wikipedia

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    Orthodox Greeks were seen as part of the millet-i Rûm (literally "Roman community") which included all Orthodox Christians, including beside Greeks also Bulgarians, Serbs, Vlachs, Slavs, Georgians, Romanians and Albanians, despite their differences in ethnicity and language and despite the fact that the religious hierarchy was Greek dominated.

  5. 1830s - Wikipedia

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    The 1830s (pronounced "eighteen-thirties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1830, and ended on December 31, 1839. In this decade, the world saw a rapid rise of imperialism and colonialism, particularly in Asia and Africa. Britain saw a surge of power and world dominance, as Queen Victoria took to the throne in 1837.

  6. First Hellenic Republic - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] From 1822 until 1827, it was known as the Provisional Administration of Greece, and between 1827 and 1832, it was known as the Hellenic State. "First Hellenic Republic" is a historiographical term .

  7. Regency council of Otto of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Bavarians were also completely unprepared for the cruelty of the Maniots: captured soldiers were sometimes put in bags with wild cats, or gradually mutilated. At best, they were stripped of weapons and clothes and sent back naked to their lines. [38] Unable to make headway, the regency was forced to climb down.

  8. Ottoman Greece - Wikipedia

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    The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century until the successful Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 and the First Hellenic Republic was proclaimed in 1822, is known in Greece as Turkocracy (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, Tourkokratia, "Turkish ...

  9. Territorial evolution of Greece - Wikipedia

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    1 June 1913 (Greek–Serbian Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Mutual Protection): delineation of the Greek–Serbian border (now the border between Greece and North Macedonia). 10 August 1913 (Treaty of Bucharest): Following the Second Balkan War, Greece secures eastern Macedonia from Bulgaria, up to Kavala.