Greek War of Independence - Part 1

The March 25th celebration is examined from both an ethnic and religious perspective. This beautiful film chronicles the War of Independence and profiles the heroes of the Revolution, and the Philhellenes-such as Lord Byron-whose loyalty was unwavering. Several scholars comment on 400 years of Ottoman rule, the Greek struggle for freedom and the remarkable similarities between the Greek and American quests for independence.

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Education

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• Greece
• Greek
• Independence
• Turk
• Turkey
• Cyprus
• Constantinople
• Athens
• FYROM
• Orthodox
• Revolution
• War

[nikoz78]

As the up-loader of these videos I want to say this: any over-the-top bigotry will not be tolerated, Turk, Greek or otherwise. I am referring to racist comments. I WILL ban you forever. There are good Turks out there. The leader of the Coca-Cola Company is a Turkish-American and an activist for the Patriarch and his freedom. In fact he used his position to help bring awareness to the problems of our Church in Constantinople. Note: denying the Greek or Armenian genocide WILL get you banned.

[DemmiV]

Thanks for this video.

[grekos1940]

greetings from greece!!! see my videos...

[spyrosw9]

@steveharrismetalgod uhm....the albanians are not illyrians.if you see any ancient map of caucasus youll see a city named albania.thats where they descend from.not sure when they migrated to balkans,but they are mentioned from ptolemy at 150ac as a tribe inhabiting illyria.

[LekaDukagjini]

Grece Indipendenc Made in Albanian Worrior...wery simpel.

[nikoz78]

@steveharrismetalgod Greeks make up many different tribes, since ancient times. This is why we vary in look. The population exchange happened in 1923 (sanctioned ethnic cleansing ). During the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1923, there were 6.6 million Turks and 5.5 million Greeks. Now there are 90 million Turks and only 16 million Greeks world wide. It's not hard to see, just from modern population numbers, how devastating it was for Hellenic civilization to lose that war....

[TheSkibbi100]

@Athlon2010 hell yeah!

You tell em!

[Athlon2010]

@MrTurkche

Greeks are , well at least they have been in the past of history as the most noble race in the world. They are the spiritual fathers of the European civilization as its known today in most of its form. It would be stupid to deny that the fathers of Europe were not Europeans. You Turks should not speak about our race since you have been a bloodthirsty Asian nomadic race from the central Asia. Remember where you came from and how you came in the Asia minor the eastern Greece .

[steveharrismetalgod]

Look at any official demografic data/source from the last decade:Today's Greek population= 95% Greeks and a mere 5% Albanians and other emigrants...Now,look at Albania= 90% Albanians, 10% Greeks and other minorities...these are the plain facts,not fancyful theories or fairytales...

[steveharrismetalgod]

@TR215...There is still a significant Greek minority in south Albania (North Epirus).These people are descended from indigenous Greeks who lived there since antiquity (most of the toponyms in the area have Greek origins).Your ancestors the Illyrians lived far to the north.The southward limit of Illyrian expansion was roughly today's Berat. Anything south of there was originally Greek (see any historical/archaeological map if you have doubts)

[steveharrismetalgod]

@TR215 Greeks inhabited Asia Minor much before any Turks appeared in the region. Most of today's coastal Turkish cities/towns/villages etc. were originally Greek colonies inhabited continuously by indigenous Greek populations since ancient times.Several of them still bear modified versions of Greek names (Istanbul=Constantinople, Izmir=Smyrni, Efes=Efesos,Milet=Militos, Bergama=Pergamos, Bodrum=Alikarnasos, Trabzon=Trapezounta etc...)

[steveharrismetalgod]

@TR215...interesting story.Only, it isn't true. 1-1,5 million Greek refugees came to mainland Greece from Anatolia (Asia Minor) during the population exchange after the 1919-22 Greco-Turkish war.The population in Greece then was already 6-7 million and today is more than 11 million.So, anatolian Greeks are only a minority of the total Greek population...And I don't see why you comment on Greeks from asia minor like they are something different-they are 100% Greeks exactly like the rest of us.