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https://greekreporter.com/2021/03/24/cliffs-of-freedom-free-honor-200-years-greek-independence/
The late Christopher Plummer in a scene from the Greek War of Independence film "Cliffs of Freedom"/Courtesy of Sedona Film Festival. The Hellenic Film Society will be streaming the film "Cliffs of Freedom" for free until March 28 to honor 200 years of Greek independence. In addition to the recently-deceased acting legend Christopher Plummer, the film stars an incredible cast including

https://greekreporter.com/2024/03/24/greek-war-of-independence-greece-revolution-1821/
As Greece counts 203 years from the beginning of its War of independence, the mind travels back to the glorious days of 1821. Those were times of bravery and battle, of blood and retaliation, rebels fighting against organized Ottoman armies, of total sacrifice and rebirth. The new nation was conceived and born on the battlefield, nourished by

https://greekreporter.com/2024/03/24/20-great-moments-greek-war-of-independence/
Metropolitan Germanos of Patras raises the flag of the Greek Revolution during the War of Independence. Credit: Public Domain. The Greek War of Independence, which brought about the birth of the modern Hellenic nation, is full of memorable events, most of them bloody battles and incredible feats of heroism.. The war cry "Freedom or Death" echoed across Greece as a smattering of heroes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence
The Greek War of Independence, 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. In 1826, the Greeks were assisted by the British Empire, Kingdom of France, and the Russian Empire, while the Ottomans were aided by their North African vassals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_of_the_Greek_War_of_Independence
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.. The Greek Revolution was not an isolated event; numerous failed attempts at regaining independence took place throughout the history of the Ottoman era.

https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-Greek-Independence
War of Greek Independence, (1821-32), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of Greece.. The rebellion originated in the activities of the Philikí Etaireía ("Friendly Brotherhood"), a patriotic conspiracy founded in Odessa (now in Ukraine) in 1814. By that time the desire for some form of independence was

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Greek_War_of_Independence
Oil painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865. The Greek War of Independence (1821-1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. After a long and bloody struggle, and with the aid of the Great Powers, independence was finally granted by the Treaty

https://www.greekrevolution.org/exhibition/introduction/
The Greek Revolution Through American Eyes. In March 1821, after roughly four hundred years of Ottoman Turkish rule, the Greek people rose up against their oppressors with the cry of liberty. The Americans, who had launched their own struggle for freedom a mere forty-five years earlier - also against those they deemed tyrants - had

https://www.greekrevolution.org/exhibition/freedom-or-death/
Freedom or Death Greece in the Age of Revolutions. Click the image or text and view each section.

https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2021-05-10/inside-hellenic-collections-greek-war-independence
2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and so provides a commemorative opportunity to again assess its nature and significance. Though sometimes referred to as the first armed conflict that established the independence of a modern nation state, the struggle was fraught with so many conflicting political interests and

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/books/review/the-greek-revolution-mark-mazower.html
In the end, "The Greek Revolution" causes us to think more deeply about the role of the nation-state in a global context. This history of the revolution aims to be, in Mazower's words

https://literaryreview.co.uk/freedom-or-death
T he year 2021 was meant to be special for Greece: an opportunity to celebrate the bicentenary of the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, which led to the birth of modern Greece. It was also supposed to be an occasion to mark the country's slow and painful, yet also real and tangible, emergence from a vicious and protracted economic crisis that had brought it to its knees.

https://www.greece.org/march-25th-the-greek-war-of-independence-1821/
The revolution was organised by the organisation known as the Filiki Eteria [Φιλική Εταιρεία] or Society of Friends; a secret organization founded in Odessa by Hellenes in 1814, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule and establish an independent Greek state. Its members were mainly Greeks from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, but also included political and

https://greekreporter.com/2021/03/23/great-fighters-greek-war-independence-greece/
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Public Domain. Born on April 3, 1770 and dying on Feb. 4, 1843, Kolokotronis is the iconic leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. Kolokotronis was born in Ramavouni in Messenia into a family of rebels and grew up in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese. The Kolokotronis clan was powerful and

https://fotis-istoria.gr/en/1821/freedom-or-death
The general of the revolution. "You have to protect your faith and keep it, for when we started the fight, we proclaimed 'For our faith' first and then 'For our homeland'. It is your responsibility now to straighten and replenish the land that we freed; and in order to do that, you need to have unity, faith and freedom as the

https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1157742/1821-the-war-of-independence-and-the-freedom-of-the-greeks/
24.03.2021 • 15:39. On March 25, 2021 we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, a bloody revolution for the Greeks' freedom from the despotism of the Ottoman Empire. Is it important to examine the content of the Greeks' freedom - that is, to highlight its historical path and in what form and

https://www.greekrevolution.org/exhibition/freedom-or-death/revolutions-around-world/
By the Greek Revolution of 1821, the world had already experienced more than a dozen independence movements and revolutions. From the first "shot heard around the world" in 1775 in Lexington, and the Declaration of Independence of 1776 in Philadelphia, the American Revolution not only overthrew a colonial power, but established a new democratic republic based upon Enlightenment ideas of

https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/200th-anniversary-greek-war
Introduction . This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis' (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. While this uprising was unsuccessful, it sparked more widespread unrest in the Morea

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence
The Greek War of Independence (1821-1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution, was a successful war by the Greeks who won independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. Muhammad Ali Pasha sent his son Ismail with an army and a fleet to help fight the Greeks and the Greek Christian revolutionaries asked for help from European Christians. A fleet of the United Kingdom, France and

https://greekreporter.com/2015/03/25/the-10-most-important-figures-of-greek-independence/
The Greek Revolution of 1821 was Greece's epic struggle for independence. Greek people had been enslaved for many centuries and the revolution was one of the most significant historic events in modern Greek history. The national regeneration struggle was long, unfair, filled with important heroic figures of Hellenism, whose actions marked the Greeks' national course. Theodoros Kolokotronis

https://greekerthanthegreeks.com/freedom-or-death-25-march-happy-greek/
It is still in use today, and is a popular theory regarding the use of 9 stripes (for the nine syllables of the motto) in the Greek flag. The Filiki Eteria at its emblem had the letters "ΗΕΑ" and "ΗΘΣ". These are the letters of the words "Ή ΕλευθερίΑ" "Ή ΘάνατοΣ", which means Freedom or Death.

https://www.tc-america.org/issues-information/turkish-history/greek-war-of-independence-and-its-toll-on-turks-668.htm
The Greek rebellion against the Ottoman Empire began 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. The patriotic cry of the revolution, proclaimed by the Greek Archbishop Germanos, was "Peace to the Christians!