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1821, 21 February: Revolt of Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire declared by Alexandros Ypsilantis in Wallachia (Iaşi).; 1821, 25 March: According to tradition, Metropolitan Germanos of Patras blesses a big Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra in Peloponnesia and proclaims to people assembled the beginning of a Greek Revolution.
The Greek War of Independence, [b] also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. [3]
The Flame of Freedom: The Greek War of Independence, 1821–1833 (2001) Brewer, David. Greece, the Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence (2010). Close, D. H. Greece since 1945 (2002). Colovas, Anthone C. A Quick History of Modern Greece (2007) excerpt and text search
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
The Kingdom of Greece (Greek: Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος [vaˈsili.on tis eˈlaðos]) was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, where Greece also secured its full independence from the Ottoman Empire after nearly four ...
Leonardos Philaras (c. 1595 – 1673) was a Greek scholar an early supporter of Greek liberation, he spent much of his career in persuading Western European intellectuals to support Greek Independence. [11] The Greek Revolution was not an isolated event; numerous failed attempts at regaining independence took place throughout the history of the ...
The Greek Army under Demetrios Ypsilantis which for the first time trained to fight as a regular European army rather than as guerilla bands, awaited Aslan Bey's forces at Petra, a town at a narrow passage in Boeotia between Livadeia and Thebes in order to dispute their passage. On September 12, 1829 the two armies engaged in battle.
Medieval Greece. Byzantine Greece (330–1453/60 AD, from the establishment of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman conquest) Frankokratia (1205–1715 AD) Ottoman Greece (1453–1821 AD) History of modern Greece (from the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821 to today) Greek War of Independence (1821–1829/32) Greece under King ...