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Greek War of Independence

Part of Wars of Independence

Germanos blessing the flag at Agia Lavra. Oil painting, 1865.

Date	1821 – 1829
Location	The Balkans (mainly Greece) and the Aegean Sea.
Result	Greek victory, establishment of the Kingdom of Greece.

Belligerents

Greek revolutionaries

United Kingdom

France

Russian Empire

Ottoman Empire

Egyptian Khedivate

Commanders and leaders

Theodoros Kolokotronis

Alexander Ypsilanti

Constantine Kanaris

Georgios Karaiskakis

Ottoman Empire Omer Vryonis

Ottoman Empire Mahmud Dramali Pasha

Ottoman Empire Reşid Mehmed Pasha

Ibrahim Pasha.

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 Russia destroyed the Ottoman-Egypt fleet in the Battle of Navarino. After a long and bloody struggle, independence was finally achieved, and confirmed by the Treaty of Constantinople in July 1832. The Greeks were thus the first of the Ottoman Empire's subject peoples to be accepted as an independent sovereign power.

Athanasios Diakos
Laskarina Bouboulina

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Portrait of a Greek armatolos by Richard Parkes Bonington (oil painting, 1825–1826, Benaki Museum)
Adamantios Korais
Cover of "Thourios" by Rigas Feraios; intellectual, revolutionary and forerunner of the Greek Revolution.
House of Filiki Eteria on Greek Square in Odesa
Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Pruth, by Peter von Hess (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Declaration of the revolutionaries of Patras; engraved on a stele in the city
"Commander Kephalas plants the flag of Liberty upon the walls of Tripolizza" (Siege of Tripolitsa) by Peter von Hess.
Anagnostaras during the Battle of Valtetsi by Peter von Hess.
Statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis, Nafplio
Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti. Haiti was the first state to recognise the Greek independence.
The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi by Theodoros Vryzakis
View of the Frangokastello
Letter of Alexander Ypsilantis to Emmanouel Pappas, dated 8 October 1820
Bust of Emmanouel Pappas in Athens.
Konstantinos Kanaris during the Revolution
Painting of the Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus
The figurehead of Anastasios Tsamados’ famous brig Aris, today in the National Historical Museum, Athens.
"The burning of the Ottoman frigate at Eressos by Dimitrios Papanikolis" by Konstantinos Volanakis
"Alexandros Mavrokordatos, president of the Executive, defends Missolonghi" by Peter von Hess.
Dionysios Solomos wrote the Hymn to Liberty, which later became the National Greek anthem, in 1823.
"The burning of the Turkish flagship by Kanaris" by Nikiforos Lytras.
"The death of Markos Botsaris during the Battle of Karpenisi" by Marsigli Filippo.
Ibrahim attacks Missolonghi by Giuseppe Pietro Mazzola
The sortie of Missolonghi by Theodoros Vryzakis (1855, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Athens).
"Karaiskakis landing at Phaliro" by Konstantinos Volanakis
The Siege of the Acropolis
Portrait of Muhammad Ali Pasha (by Auguste Couder, 1841, Palace of Versailles), whose expedition to the Peloponnese precipitated European intervention in the Greek conflict.
The Naval Battle of Navarino by Ambroise Louis Garneray (1827).
General Maison meeting Ibrahim Pasha in Navarino in September 1828 (by Jean-Charles Langlois,1838, Palace of Versailles).
Map showing the original territory of the Kingdom of Greece as laid down in the Treaty of 1832 (in dark blue)
"Grateful Hellas" by Theodoros Vryzakis
Flags used by various admirals of the Revolutionary Navy from an 1823 manuscript.
Nikolaos Mantzaros' most popular work is the music for Hymn to Liberty, whose first and second stanzas became the national anthem in 1865
Band in a parade on 25 March
Used in Thessaly, created by Anthimos Gazis

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