Oggi è il Giorno dell’Indipendenza della Grecia, segnando 204 anni da quando la Grecia è diventata di nuovo uno stato!
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di Greekball
Oggi è il Giorno dell’Indipendenza della Grecia, segnando 204 anni da quando la Grecia è diventata di nuovo uno stato!
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di Greekball
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Fun facts about today:
1. This was not the first rebellion from Greeks. We had another major rebellion, supported (and then abandoned) by Russia in 1770. It was known as the [Orlov Revolt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlov_revolt)
2. The rebellion didn’t start today. It’s celebrated today to coincide with the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Dimitris Ypsilantis started a rebellion in Wallachia (Southern Romania) with the aim of creating a pan-Balkan revolt, rather than a Greek only revolt. That revolt failed, but along with the rebellion of the Epirote governor Ali Pasha, it distracted the Ottoman Armies enough for the rebellion to take hold in southern Greece, creating a power base and eventually spreading and becoming successful.
3. The revolution and the official recognition didn’t happen until 1829, following the western intervention and the [Battle of Navarino](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Navarino) in 1827.
4. The first government of Greece was a republican government led by Ioannis Kapodistrias, a famous Greek diaspora politician, who served as a senior cabinet member for Russia.
Where is Lord Byron when you need him?
I’m here for the comments from Turks.
The Ottoman conquest of Greece (as well Constantinople, Western Anatolia and regions like Pontus) was a tragedy for the Greek people (and European civilization) and 400 years of living under the yoke of a slow, sticky, but oppressive regime is enough to often completely ruin or eliminate entire cultures.
Huge respect to the Greeks for maintaining a sense of idendity and strength throughout the centuries, biding their time and never losing hope, to finally rise up and take back their homeland.
Also, it needs to noted how much blood and tears they shed for this. The Ottomans were absolutely *brutal* in their crackdowns on these revolts and rebellions, from Greece to Serbia. They had to endure utterly savage revenge attacks (often against civilians) But the people kept fighting.
Long live Greece, her people, her culture.
Happy independence day to the co-founders (🇮🇹) of Western civilization, the first country to break away from the clutches of the Ottoman Empire — and one of the pillars of worldwide Christianity. 🇬🇷✝️
Happy independence day Ellada !
Happy Independence Day to all my Greek Bros!
Though I would’ve preferred a more pan-Balkan movement like Rigas Feraios wanted.
Happy Independence Day, Greece!
Again? You mean for the first time. City states – conquered by Macedonia, conquerer by Romans, conquered by Ottomans.
As a Greek I feel immensely proud to be part of this culture, land and people. From ancient times to modern achievements Greeks have shown remarkable talent and insight to be progressive and a positive force for the world. Let our heritage never be forgotten! Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος! Liberty or Death!
Kali Chronia to all Greeks!
The Greeks began their rebellion in the Peloponnese on 6 April 1821 with the slogan: “Not a Turk shall remain in the Morea”, which inspired indiscriminate and murderous action against all Muslims[13].
[https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2448/eng](https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2448/eng)
According to historian William St. Clair, their technique was “to engineer some atrocity against the local Turkish population”,[^([42])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-autogenerated2-42) so that these different Greek communities would have to ally themselves with the revolutionaries fearing a retaliation from the Ottomans.[^([42])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-autogenerated2-42) In such a case, in March 1821, Greeks from Samos island had landed in the Chios and attacked the Muslim population living in that island….Although the total estimates of the casualties vary, the Turkish, Muslim Albanian and Jewish population of the Peloponnese had ceased to exist as a settled community.[^([2])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-autogenerated3-2) Some estimates of the Turkish and Muslim Albanian civilian deaths by the rebels range from 6,000 to 15,000 Muslim residents (out of the town’s 40,000).[^([35])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-35) Massacres of Turkish civilians started simultaneously with the outbreak of the revolt.[^([31])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-St_Clair_12-31)[^([32])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-Finlay_1971_146-32)[^([36])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-36)[^([37])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence#cite_note-37)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_during_the_Greek_War_of_Independence)
Historian George Finlay claimed that the extermination of the Muslims in the rural districts was the result of a premeditated design and it proceeded more from the suggestions of men of letters, than from the revengeful feelings of the people.
Later, just in the same methods, The Balkan Wars were not only fought on the battlefield: children, women and men were forcefully assimilated, or deported and brutalized in the name of creating more perfect nation-states.
[https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/1422/780](https://post.lakeheadu.ca/article/view/1422/780)