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Right after securing its independence from the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Greece contained only a quarter of the world's Greeks. The remainder still lived under the Ottomans or would come to be colonial subjects of other powers. That situation was obviously untenable. Amongst the Greeks, the notion of Greater Greeceāthe Megali Ideaātook root and was at the center of their politics for a century.
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For those interested, at the beginning, the idea was to demand more rights by the sultan so Greeks could enter the Ottoman parliament and try to take control of the state from there as all major trade and production was controlled by Greeks and Armenians.
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Another great video!
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The 20th century was quite turbulent for Greece. There were many coups, revolutions and even a civil war. The monarchy was abolished in 1973. The last king, Constantine II died in January, 2023.
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Btw instanbul comes from the Greek phrase "ĪµĪ¹Ļ ĻĪ·Ī½ ĻĻĪ»Ī¹Ī½" which means to the city.
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Hey I really liked the videos you do on how former empires or countries worked and since you also did a video on how the Kingdom of Yugoslavia worked I was wondering if you could also make one about how the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia worked?
Thank you for these videos they're really well done and informative!
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ĪĪ»Ī»Ī¬Ī“Ī±! ā¤
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I see the inspiration from History Matters. Love the video š
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The remark about freedoming Balkan slavs as priority of Russian Empire in wars with Porta is quite strange. As Russian myself, i had to say, that the most valuable thing for us is not nationality or roots. It's Orthodoxia, nothing more, it's principle thing. Yes, we love Serbs and Bulgarians as slavic brothers but orthodox unity is way more important for sure. And you can easily find out the same point in political post of our ambassadors in Porta, for example, in times of Hellenes resistance or Balkan wars. In school, we were studying about all that stuff and i remember about "Greek Project" of Ekaterina II which was based excatly on liberation of Hellas, giving them back their lands occupied by Porta and Constantinople too. Some of this plans were realized in 1770-s, on Hellenes islands (Paros, as far as i remember). Shame then were nothing more. Also, there were a lot of Hellas in Russian Empire: in goverment, army, church, etc. They leave their unforgettable mark in our history, and this is besides that Hellas (Romeis would be more accurate but for us it's all Hellas) give us christianity and alphabet earlier :) They gifted us loads of civilisation, in fact. Many Hellenes descendants live in Russia by now, amazing people with great culture. It's rather fun fact, but every person in Russia that i've met within my whole life said only positive stuff about Hellas and Hellenes and all are sad about Romei Empire (which is directly accotiated with Hellas for us), national resistance in XIX and XX, enosis in Cyprus and other historical things. Maybe it's because we are all orthodox christians. Anyway, it's a great video, thank you. And send love to Hellenes from Russia ā¤ Zito Ellada!
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"The fact is that, following that of the USA the Greek Revolution was the first liberal and national movement to succeed in Europe and developed simultaneously with similar movements in South America, while it preceded the well-known large national unifications in Europe of Italy and Germany. The Greeks did not invent the nation-state, but they were the first in Europe to implement it."
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021
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the "funniest" thing is that many, even westerners want to believe and present Byzantium still today (Greek East Roman Empire ) and think of it as only some kind of dark conservative "regressive" "theocratic" "Christano-taliban" thing and state that had no relation to ancient Greece. They have brainwashed them with different stereotypes to think like that (even many modern Greeks think like that) . While the Byzantines did not have any "dark middle ages" like the westerners and no feudalism in the sense of the more western Christianity, and they do not know that in the Byzantine universities the Greeks were taught ancient Greek texts like Homer and ancient Greek philosophy, poetry, rhetorics, sciences etc.etc. and that in Byzantium they had contributed and continued a form of direct democracy in each city of the Byzantium and its local communities, that the great political historian and scientist and intellectual Giorgos Kontogiorgis calls "The Hellenic Cosmosystem" (he has write many many pages on this subject)
Also the Greeks of the Byzantium that studied in the Byzantium schools and universities could read and understand almost perfectly, all or most of the ancient Greek texts. There was a very high education system on learning well the Hellenic language.
Some of this (real) democratic structures or spirit/ culture of every day life, Greeks continued it even under the rule of the Ottoman empire and stopped only when those western powers imposed their political systems on Greeks that Greeks didn't wanted it cause they wanted to continue their political democratic system of the Byzantium and ancient Greece, that they continued it from ancient Greece, just in a slightly new form and under the new context of "Monotheistic" era of the Hellenic Christianity and culture (with its positives and negatives).
There is a lot of falsification and distortion from Westerners (and Easterners also anyway) of Greek history and culture so that Northern Europeans and other Westerners claim the continuity of the Greek spirit and culture for themselves and not the Greeks. And this is not only in the political system but in arts and everything. Byzantium had many characteristics of an organical living continuation of the ancient Greek spirit and culture and not an absolute discontiouty as some want to think or present that
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The Megali Idea or Turan (Unity of All Turkic Peoples) is nowadays quite frustrating and unrealistic. There should be only one idea acceptable to all people living peacefully in one world
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Sounds like it was pretty mega in scale
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I am Greek and thank you very much that you dedicated time to create a video about our greatest ambition of our modern history !!
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I always had a curiosity over the roman empire in general and always wondered what if the Eastern Roman Empire survived the siege of the Ottomans or was restored in some formal manner..
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Great video!
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According to Theodoros Kolokotronis, the commander-in-chief of the Greek Revolution:
"OUR KING (Constantine XI Palaiologos) was killed and never surrendered to the Turks, he never signed a treaty (of surrender) with them."
Aristides Hatzis, "The Noblest Cause: The 1821 Greek War of Independence", p.p. 112
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5:06 eh it's not exactly that way. Greece and the Greeks had staged rebellions in Thessaly, Epirus and Naousa during 1878/1881, and Greece threatened the Ottomans with war if they didn't surrender those regions.
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In greece these things are either taught to us through national holidays annualy or through the school System in middle school...
Which makes me wonder why i watch these videos, I already know this.
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Wonderful video! Could you do a video on The Russian Civil War?
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@iwannisbalaouras1687
8 months ago
Thank you from a Greek, you cover a subject that don't take a lot of spotlight
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