Greek War of Independence (1821-1830)

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1832 against the Ottoman Empire.

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[superfrycook]

Ancient Greeks to the Byzantines to the Modern Greeks to this day...

[johnpappas]

I love how Turks always say "Wahh the Griks had help from muh great powers they never do anything on their own" ignoring of course the vast power difference between a bunch of peasants and farmers rising up against a great power at the time already present... The Greeks didn't even have much help against the Turks, In fact it was the Turks who brought in help after they got their asses kicked repeatedly on land and on sea, the Turks ran to Egypt and had to get Muhammad Ali to send his armies to the Morea because they couldn't defeat the rebellion on their own, a mighty empire of "warrior people" couldn't defeat an uprising of poor farmers and peasants literally right next door to their capital, entire armies of theirs perished, their navy was taking loss after loss. Yet we have Turks today saying Greeks had "help" when in reality they were the ones who got decimated and had to get egypt to aid them, all Greeks really did was even the playing field, the Turks brought their friends, Greeks brought theirs. Turks always twisting and rewriting history, to hide the fact Greeks defeated them

[poghos]

Great video. Respect and love Greece from Italy. We are brothers, una faccia una razza.

[Uranium_Enjoyer]

This is gonna be a *_fun, happy_* comment section.
Full of *_good-natured_* people, who *_never_* argue....

[Tursiopstruncatus]

Amazing. Respect from Spain. Ζήτω η Ελλάδα!

[captainsouvlakis]

Σαν νίκησαν μια χουφτα παλικαρια όταν ήσασταν οι πιο δυνατοι.... Σιγά μην σε φοβηθούμε τώρα Ερντογάν!

[osmangazi]

looks like the Greeks got their revenge after what happened in 1453

[boosiel]

I see the first revolutions happened in Sparta, a land of brave warriors, who one defended Greece by bravely fighting at Thermopylae, rose again to the call of duty for Greece and her people ✊🏾🇬🇷

[wvd]

Byzantium never dies it just changes the capital and the flag

[Menelaosmintokleineis]

Greece always kicked and will kick ass when it comes to protecting their land. They might not have the numbers, but that never stopped them before. Mad respect from America🇺🇸

[Ptaku]

it bugs me how Crete was left in Turkish hands after spending almost entire war under Greek control :(

[argiropanou]

S&F production I wanna tell you that we celebrate that in the 25th March and it is one of our biggest celebrations in Greece and I want to thank you that you made this work for the war of independence in my country!

[MessiniaGreece]

Revolutonaries had great lead against Ottomans in start but two foolish civil wars during the revolution between Rumeli (central Greece) and Morea, the support to Ottomans from Egypt (with numerous army, modern weapons, former Napoleon's officers), the wrong urge of a philhellene officer to the main greek force to fight in open field against ottoman deli cavalry during the siege of Acropolis, ignoring the objections of revolutionary leaders which lead to loss of Acropolis, brought the risk to the revolution. The High Porte didn't recognise the loss of Morea easily and continue to send more forces from Balkans and Egypt. The Great Powers decited to recognise the greek autonomy and they send a fleet out of Navarino to watch out. Muslim fleet foolishly opened fire and in the naval battle it wiped out. Finaly decided that the Greece will be recognised as independent after so much civillian bloodshed and after the Russo-Turkish war in 1828, among the terms of treaty of Adrianopol Ottoman Empire accepted to recognise Greece.
Greek Revolution is the first national-liberating revolution and the greatest challenge it faced was the counter-revolutionary environment of Holly Alliance which eventually overcame by the wave of philhellenism in public opinion in European countries against the elites. You can say that it altered the status quo and started the era of revolutions of 1848 that finally lead to modern nation-states of Europe.

[Coco]

Too bad Constantinople has not been liberated yet.

[cloroxbleach]

*Russian Empire* joined the game.
Ottoman Empire: oh sheet.

[orionnebula]

The Turks are always trying to find excuses and say "The Yunan gays had help from all of europe" although that never happened.
Wanna hear a humiliating defeat by the Ottomans in "The Greek War of Independence", the Battle of Gravia.
Greek Peasants:115
Ottoman Armed Soldiers:10K
Casualities
Greek Peasants:5
Ottoman Armed Soldiers:300 and 600 injured.
P.S I am Greek too and I don't want to offend our ancestors by saying peasants, but you know they were peasants

[conde_concini]

Congratulations to Greece from Brazil 🇧🇷😘

[markhenley]

Finally! Great video by you my friend!

[eoraptorua]

Wow? the first greek war was a huge event at the first of the 19-th century. You`re a good mapper!

[ΓεώργιοςΓαλανάκης-νω]

If Kolettis and Mavrokordatos weren't control the political system of Greece Kolokotronis, Bouboulina, Nikitaras, Karaiskakis, Mavrogenous, Androutsos, Mpotsaris, Papaflessas, Tzavellas a and all the other great heroes could easily rebuild a much much bigger Greece!