Roderick Beaton and David Ricks
Ashgate
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Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821 when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known but of even greater importance was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century a process whose repercussions continue to this day.
Ashgate
Hardback
288
Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821 when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known but of even greater importance was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century a process whose repercussions continue to this day.