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GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

The Greek War of Independence was a revolt fought from 1821 to 1832 against the Ottoman Empire. After centuries of Turkish domination, Greeks in the Peloponnesus rebelled on March the 25th 1821 and proclaimed Greek independence in January 1822. The revolt spread, attracting popular support in Europe and such volunteers as Lord G. Byron, and the Turks were forced in 1824 to seek aid from Egypt. The Egyptians and Turks soon occupied much of the southern Peloponnesus, but their advance was slowed by intervention of European powers: first at the Battle of Navarino in October 1827, in which the Egyptian naval forces were routed; then by the outbreak of the Russo- Turkish War in 1828. The London Conference of 1830 to 1831 of European powers set the final terms of Greek independence in the London Protocol signed on February the 3rd 1831, and Otto I was designated king in 1832 by the Treaty of London. The Ottoman Turks recognised the independent kingdom of Greece by the Treaty of Constantinople in 1832.
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