The Greek Revolution | How Did Greece Get Its Independence?

How did Greece get its independence? Between 1821 and 1832 the Greek Revolution restored something that hadn't existed for nearly four hundred years - an independent Greek state. The Ottoman Empire had wiped the last one, the Byzantine Empire, off the map in 1453 and had ruled over the Greeks ever since, but with the help of Britain, France, and Russia, Greece was able to regain its independence from the Turks.
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[@LookBackHistory]

If you enjoyed this video, watch the next one! Find out how Greece grew to its modern borders and why it overthrew its monarchy (twice!) here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naLClYSto9SNb5o

[@HollyA]

Thank you, it's helpful! Could have done without the three ads in the middle of an 11-minute video, including one ad just 30 seconds from the end.

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@user-hs1di8ks9m]

Good midnifht my friend. You have only an important historic wrong. And, I hope, this is from your ignorance. (1) There is not any "Byzantium". This is the former East Roman State, who maked by the divide of the Roman Empire, at the 395 after the beginning of the christian chronology and was the conquer and the mortal enemy of the Hellenism. This state was finished by Ottoman empire at 1453. (2) The christianism there is not national religion. Is an international religion. Christian can be any one people, White, Black, Yellow or Red. National religion is Hellenic Dodecatheon, Roman Pantheon, Japanese Sintoism, Judaism, Mithraism, Asatru/Odinism of Scandinavians etc. You can see, that is the truth: for the Science of Religion, with the phrase "national religion", is only this religion, who have her members, only the members of a nation and do not sends her priests at other nations.-

[@agathamantanes1252]

Πολλά λάθη

[@AlexHellene]

​@@Universal.. More Albanian propaganda. Kolokotronis was Greek not Albanian, he mentions it in his memoirs repeatedly, and clearly distinguishes between Greeks and Albanians. He mentions driving out and killing tens of thousands of Albanians from Southern Greece. And no, while many fighters were Albanian, most of them weren't. Kolokotronis, Georgios Karaiskakis, Mavromichalis who were the main heads of the revolutionaries, were not Albanian, nor were their forces. Read a book, like Kolokotronis' memoirs, in other words from the horse's mouth, and stop listening to Albanian propaganda, and literally spamming every video on this subject. I get it, you have to spam every video, and every reply, attempting to steal Greek history and identity, because Albania unfortunately doesn't have much of any note, itself.

[@thanchoul2754]

As a Greek,I've seen countless people talk about the Peloponnesian war,Spartan soldiers and ancient Athens however I rarely see videos about our independence. Thank you and great job.

[@sinnyawesome7037]

in average countries history teaches how awesome you were (and greek culture was great) in the long long ago because either the future is not bright or the historians try to make their people self confident so that they could make the future at least brighter!

[@Gta5andrdr2lover]

I'm 12 however I don't study history and teacher asks us questions and I answer them easily

[@filizaltman5058]

Nothing to brag about your independence. without the help of your daddy england you were nothing and everybody knows it. About the so called wars you were talking about kind of a myth like 300 against what, 30 thousand and you won, come down to earth. Good with make beliefs aren't you?

[@aleksandarmakedonskiIV]

The documentary that shocked Greece - SKAI "1821"

[@VergilDarkslayer]

Happy greek independent day boys

[@joefriday8607]

Nothing much to celebrate, the uprising was a failure. Southern Greece became independent only by the will of the European powers, after military intervention.

[@swordofomens3381]

@@joefriday8607 no one had helped Greece we freed our selves

[@nikosnas2184]

@@joefriday8607 wow a failure that succeeded right...

[@linusp9316]

@@joefriday8607 Quit spamming. You're wrong, and copy-pasting the same BS 100 times doesn't make you any less wrong. Get over yourself.

[@charadradam9985]

@@joefriday8607 as usually happen during all similar movements, any positive circumstance is welcome. navarino battle was important but nothing is compared with the efforts of all the simple people and the money of the greek diaspora and mainly in sheeps. besides. taking advantage of any circumstance is somthing common all over the world during revolutional movements, wars, and even political changes. ok smartass?? return to your hole now.

[@tassop1128]

Great video, very on point. What needs to be mentioned is that before King Otto was assigned to rule Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias was elected to be the head of the state of the greeks (he was murdered in 1831). He is one of the most important figures in Greece's history.

[@demetrisgeorgoulis6334]

Kapodistrias was a prominant figure to the formation of modern day Greece. A prominant figure to his era in general.

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@tassop1128]

​@@Universal.. -Kolokotronis wasn't Arvanite he had ancestry from Roupaki, a Greek speaking village and his original name was Tzerginis, nowhere in his memoirs he mentions he is an Arvanite. -Botsaris was Suliote -Tzavelas was Suliote -Plaputas was pelloponesian Arvanite -Kountouriotes were Arvanites -Bouboulina was part Arvanite -Miaoulis was Arvanite Of course we always remember the sacrifices of all the people who contributed to the creation of modern Greece (🇬🇷 )Needless to say those Greeks (🇬🇷) had no affiliation with Albania or today's Albanians whose ancestors (Tourkalvanoi) were the enemies they fought to liberate Greece. some of them (🇦🇱) were -Mustafa Pasha Bushatli -Omer Vrioni -Mahmud Dramali Pasha -Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt -Ali Pasha of Ioannina -Aslan Bey -Ahmet Nevrepista and of course I can't skip mentioning the letter of Ahmet Nevrepista (🇦🇱) to Kitsos Tzavellas (🇬🇷) "You say this land is greek. Know that I who spilled so much blood as you say, just as much you will spill in order to "eat" Kravara and Lidoriki, for they know about coal, not about rifle, I'll tell you that much. Go to where you came from, you orphan! For I pity you that you remained only 3 Suliots, and all of you will die. And about this greek land you tell me, the land is me and if it's gods will, you'll want to come and meet me fast. Oh Kitso, I know you as an Arvanite, like me, where the hell did you learn those greek and I do not know them?" Translated in english from the original: el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%91%CF%87%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%84_%CE%9D%CE%B5%CF%80%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%B2%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1_%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CE%AF%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF_%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%B1_(1828) Cheers✌😘

[@tassop1128]

@Αίθρα M that's just a conspiracy theory...

[@tassop1128]

a parata mas re psekasmene, ta diavazoun oi ksenoi k gelan mazi mas

[@mk9650]

Great video overall but I would like to point out that the Friendly Brotherhood wasn't founded by Ypsilantes but by four men called Skoufas, Xanthos Tsakalov and Anagnostopoulos. These four proposed Ypsilantis to be the leader of the brotherhood [after Kapodistrias declined as he thought that a revolution would be impossible at the time] and he accepted.

[@mirellamgk7155]

wasnt anagnostopoulos also a founder?

[@mk9650]

@@mirellamgk7155 oh yes. Why does everyone including myself forget him?

[@manicdgr]

He didn't think the revolution would be impossible. That was what he said, but the reason he really refused to lead it was because of the tzar. Kapodistrias was the foreign minister of russia at that point and he believed that from his position in the russian government he would have had a greater chance of helping the revolution. If he accepted leadership he would have lost his much more powerful position since the tzar was against the revolution. The friendly brotherhood implied that russia was behind them, backing the revolution e.t.c but when they said it openly the tzar was less than happy, so he made sure to show opposition to the revolt. Kapodistrias hoped that he could undo some of the harm done by the friendly brotherhood while also hoping he could sensitize the major powers of europe and get them to support the revolution.

[@zzpain3875]

And don't forget Laskarina Bouboulina!

[@VergilDarkslayer]

Which he did when he saw that peloponisos was liberated he usd his power to supply the rebels and with french russian instructors to train them kapodistrias to this day is considered the father of the greek army and the new state

[@dinos9607]

Honestly, did not expect a foreigner to make such an accurate video on the Greek revolution. Most foreigners think that Greeks just remembered to rebel after 4 centuries when in reality the revolution of 1821 was the fourth major revolution (the second biggest one was indeed that of 1768-1770 when Greece was nearly liberated at that point but international affairs prevented such an evolution with Russia being pressured by Britain to stand off). Overall we count more than 35 revolutions, rebellions and uprisings in Greece in the 368 years between 1453 and 1821 which is basically 1 war event between Greeks and Turks event every decade! It is a detail that is so often omitted and so often it is attempted to pass the idea to people that Greeks were just passive for 4 centuries and suddenly remembered to rebel in 1821. Kudos for the presentation.

[@beans6397]

In 25 March 2021 Greece celebrates 200 years after our liberation! 🎉 🎉 🎉

[@joefriday8607]

Nothing much to celebrate, the uprising was a failure. Southern Greece became independent only by the will of the European powers, after military intervention.

[@beans6397]

@@joefriday8607 No, in Messolongi Greeks started to revolt and this declared independence little by little ALL Over Greece, were imprisoned for 400 years, Europe did nothing when we were imprisoned for 400 years, so SHUT UP, go search on the internet how the war started and don't waste my time anymore! 💙🇬🇷💙

[@AzOuLs]

@@joefriday8607 for 6 years greeks was rebeling against the othoman empire and Won against othoman empire armys when they were out numbered and with stolen weapons from turks when everybody from europe was watching .Indipendent came from Greek ppl who faught for their homeland.Friendly powers came after the slaughter of mesologi cause everyone saw the message from this brave man who died for freedom.First was Russia who wanted to help and Britain,france joined after at Navarino. There the 3 powers dint wanna fight the turks that was with the Egyptians but wanted to nagotiate. Turks had sended a boat with nagotiator to comunicate but on the way of the small boat someone (probably greek) killed them and then the Cannons from the warships had started.As soon as turks lost their Fleet too war came to an end and Balkan wars had started.So your argument about '' nothing much to celebrate ,the uprising was a failure is invalid since for 6 years greeks was alone against othoman empire and everybody else was watching of what was goin on there. Dont forget that all this Organization came from people who were 400 years in slavery and they never forgot that they were Greek at first place,with no guns,no army,no state.Just the idea of freedom or death.I am not goin to talk about the Strategies that took apart to beat down the turks from Theodoros kolokotronis when he was against his own kind cause of traitors in all this chaos cause you will be surpriced how unbeliaveable hard it is to against an empire with no ecomic loby,no army,no weapons.So Hellas Made the Cake and europe put the Cherry on top

[@user-en3ce7mx1w]

@@joefriday8607 Just to mention after the year 1453 and before 1821 the Greeks started 123 revolutions but all failed because we were unprepared. Dont forget also that Othomans were the third superpower at that era

[@StavrosSachtouris]

​@@joefriday8607 In Greece we like to celebrate the beginning of a war, not the end. Our most importand national days are the start of the revolutiion against the Ottomans (25/3) and the start of our involvement in WWII against the Italians and, later, the Germans (28/10). Having said that, yes, the Greek revolution was a military failure and a financial disaster, but it was a diplomatic victory.

[@konstantinosch8273]

You forgot to mention a lot of important persons and battles that Greeks made in order to gain their independence... Overall good job..

[@justinianthegreat154]

Mate , it would take too long to mention all of them...

[@emrecanik1895]

@@justinianthegreat154 If not for Europe and Russia they would have fail terribly they wre losing in 1826 already.

[@alexabood2516]

I see youtube videos such as this as more of educational guides. This guy make TONS of videos so he can't possibly go into all the content they include because of time. I'm positive they would if they were not using this particular format. I call these videos guides because they will pique the interest of many viewers and then cause them to find books or videos created by experts who only focus on the Greek Revolutionary War, or any topic, which will go into beautiful detail on every aspect of the the struggle of, mine, and, with the name, i'm assuming, your greek ancestors. But don't ask me for any recommendations though. I am only on the beginning of learning about it haha

[@skeletonjanitor]

@@emrecanik1895 they would of still eventually break off the Ottoman Empire due to its declining power

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@alexalex-si4hl]

Lovely, this part of our history is overlookes and almost noone outside of Greece knows about it. It is awesome to see a video about it. Greetings from Kalamata (the first city which was liberated from the ottomans on 23d March 1821)

[@LookBackHistory]

Yeah, I noticed no big history KZbinr had really covered it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Glad you enjoyed!

[@joefriday8607]

Liberated nothing. Nothing to celebrate, the uprising was a failure. Southern Greece became independent only by the will of the European powers, after military intervention.

[@georgios_5342]

@@joefriday8607 bruh, Greece beat off the massive Turkish empire in 1-2 years, and it had many civil wars. The powers intervened to help them sort that out and keep the Egyptian fleet off.

[@giannislainas5187]

@@joefriday8607 You dont know what you are talking about. We were fighting against 70 nations,thats how many different nations the Sultan ruled over. For years we were wiping the floor with all armies the Sultan was sending and only after he called the Egyptians we got in trouble and while we were having our second civil war in between us wiping the floor of Ottoman armies and Egypt arriving. Take note here. The egyptians were only nominaly a subject of the Sutlan,in practice he was independent. He did 2 revolutions of him own,Ali and Imbrahim agaisnt the Sultan in which Egypt won hand down and the Sultan was only saved by the same powers that intervened in favour of us.

[@polytrelaras1]

@@joefriday8607 Get your facts straight. The only time Britain, France and Russia intervened is was when they saw the Greeks were getting control of their land just like the USA intervened in Europe only when they saw the German-Italian Axis was getting weak. They didn't dear to do this before.

[@V-man117]

So proud to be Greek. This was our greatest victory in the modern era and the revolution that led to me and my brothers being free today, without the fear of being butchered just because i believe in a different religion 🇬🇷💙

[@BenDover-ud7vs]

your greatest victory? jesus christ. Without Navarino and the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29, the revolt would certainly not have been successful. The Ottomans suppressed the rebellion after Missolonghi fell and exerted their control effectively most of Morea.

[@costenics_sw]

@@BenDover-ud7vs Well partially no , becase ottomans never managed to conquer all of Greece.Mani was free for ever

[@costenics_sw]

@@erdalefendi6479 No they were not , many of them were forced to change religion or else they would die.And plus what about the rule in which you were taken Greek kids and made them the best turkish army?,

[@costenics_sw]

@@erdalefendi6479 700 years?Lol man you are exaggerated.In fact 1821-1453=368 years

[@costenics_sw]

@@erdalefendi6479 True but then you commited genocides a century after , killing priests destroying churches

[@georgios_5342]

Very nice review of the subject. Although I would add that revolts didn't just happen in Morea, Crete and Central Greece. They happened all around the Greek world, in Macedonia, Epirus, Cyprus, Thessaly, Pontus, the Northern Balkans and Ionia, but the ones closest to Constantinople were quickly put down. Also there were many attempts of revolution other than the Orlov revolts that happened but unfortunately failed, and the fact that some Greeks had privileges early on doesn't mean that they "liked" Ottoman rule, it was bad but not as bad as Latin rule/Francocracy

[@cv4809]

Were there any greek uprisings in Anatolia?

[@georgios_5342]

@@cv4809 Yes, in Pontus and Smyrna. Smyrna was put down pretty fast, but Pontus especially had long uprisings which led to the Turkish government kicking them into the USSR. But in general there weren't that many revolts there because the Greeks were merchants or ambassadors/translators. They generally did prestige works that had to do with the exterior. So they had more to lose than the dirt poor Balkan provinces, and some were even against joining Greece, if that meant war. But anyway, the Greek people of Anatolia had lived closer to the Turks and weren't as nationalistic as the 19th century Balkan Greeks, who had been tortured and exhausted by the farther away Turks.

[@spartan9540]

@@cv4809 no. Anatolian Greeks probably didn’t even know they were Greeks until they came to Greece lmao. They were like brothers with Turks

[@HelloIdkwhatname]

@@spartan9540 what? Thats bs i have ancestry from Asia minor (Izmir and near Izmir and from Istanbul)and still knew that they were Greek but as anatolian greeks

[@perspecktivity7540]

@@spartan9540 most of the anatolian greek people are of Turkmen origin since patriarch was trying to increase the population of his dominion. Turkmen people were best candidate for that, especially non-sunni muslim ones.

[@dimitrisdosis1919]

you have forgotten to mention ioannis kapodistirias as the first governor of the first Hellenic Republic after Greece gain its indepentance but in general very good job!!...i hope to cover the balkan wars as well

[@lehistoryconnoisseur1441]

The legend has returned. Great to see you back man had me worried.

[@LookBackHistory]

Yes, I'm back! And with any luck, there won't be another month-long gap between this video and the next!

[@fandemusique4693]

@@LookBackHistory would you do some videos about the Habsburg of before the Austrian empire (so, in the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish ones)?

[@LookBackHistory]

@@fandemusique4693 Possibly. A Spanish Empire video certainly sounds fun.

[@Urmapleleaf]

You forgot about to mention Kapodistrias

[@GgmanGoudeos]

We are still sorry for what we did to him :(

[@aliaslan2028]

Who’s that?

[@outerspace7391]

@@aliaslan2028 The president of the First Hellenic Republic and a national hero

[@christoforospapakonstantin3409]

@@outerspace7391 I would more say the father of Modern Greece. I had researched about Ioannis Kapodistrias and this man was just everything for Greece, he reformed and builded Modern Greece from two civil wars and a long independence war that took around 9 years, this man was a legend.

[@savvass2950]

No mention of Kappodistria? *hmmmmmmmm*

[@alexhandest1582]

This helped me so much on my history project. Very detailed and informative.

[@LookBackHistory]

I hope you score well!

[@angelosdaresis1477]

"GREEKS, Persians, Chinese and Japanese could be cited as examples of ETHNIC CONTINUITY since despite massive cultural changes over the centuries key identifying components such as name, customs, language and territorial association were broadly maintained and reproduced for MILLENNIA" Anthony D Smith, Anthropologist, Emeritus professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity

[@plsegott]

Lol

[@angelosdaresis1477]

According to Theodoros Kolokotrnis, the commander-in-chief of the Greek Revolution: "OUR KING (Constantine XI Palaiologos) was killed and never surrendered to the Turks, he never signed a treaty with them" Aristides Hatzis, "The Noblest Cause: The 1821 Greek War of Independence", p.p. 112

[@Thomas-ty5ol]

This was amazing! Thank you for this video! Keep up the good work! You seem like a Philhelene! May God bless you !

[@LookBackHistory]

I suppose I am a bit of a philhelene, glad you enjoyed!

[@HK-pp9ig]

99% of the world is Philhelene; some are more enthusiastic than others.

[@tankadar]

Really nice video! Greeks really had it though lol

[@LookBackHistory]

No kidding, and thanks!

[@deopriyakumar8174]

Look Back History 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@valerios05]

Exactly but we still have it though we are still one of the poorest countries and we still have a criss and turkey still wants our land even tho there own land isnt there's

[@XSCSCGS]

@@valerios05 we are definitely not one of the poorest countries. Greece is by no means a successful or thriving country currently, mainly due to lack of exports and production, that being said, PM Mitsotakis has show serious promise towards revitalizing Greece’s economy through a strong capitalist effort. Thank our stars that Tsipras is gone!

[@rania546]

@@XSCSCGS That being said go and check how low the salaries are today and also how indecent has become the standard of living in this country thanks to many including capitalist Mitsotakis and his wealthy friends.

[@user-nz7ws6vl9c]

Great job on both content and presentation! Subscribed immediately.

[@LookBackHistory]

Awesome, thank you!

[@maryking2712]

Glad you are back. Quite missed you. Just as interesting and entertaining as ever

[@LookBackHistory]

Thank you kindly! More to come!

[@Ankurt666]

Nice job mate!

[@katakai7117]

I looked at your subcount and i was predisposed to watch a bad quality video (i know its bad but its just an instict) i was pleasantly surprised you are bound to have great succes in the future

[@LookBackHistory]

Hey, that's cool! Thanks for watching!

[@angelosdaresis1477]

"FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF GREEK HISTORY have produced four Greek heritages, each of which has had an effect on the life of the Greeks in later stages of their history. The Hellenic Greeks received a heritage from the Mycenean Greeks, the Byzantine Greeks received on from the Hellenic Greeks, the Modern Greeks have received one heritage from the Byzantines and a second from the Hellenes.” The Greeks and their Heritage, A.J Toynbee, 1st Korais Professor of Greek Studies

[@poppycalliope6793]

It's a miracle that there is a Greek nation after being under Ottoman rule for so many years. In spite of this, the nation never lost its identity, its culture, its language, its religion and its yearning for Independence. That in its self is a great feat. The help of friends in this endeavour is never forgotten and that is why Lord Byron's statue adorns the garden of heroes monument. There were many who participated in the "freedom or death" rebellion. Long live Hellas that birthed the western culture and is one of the most historic nations in the world.

[@mertok2987]

Because Ottomans never assimilated greeks actually they didnt assimilated any nation under their rule if they could today ı dont think there could be greek language

[@frggamer537]

Osmanlı idaresindeki hiç bir millet dilini dinini kaybetmemiştir.Keşke biz Türkler bir ingiliz bir fransız olsaydîk.Mucize Türkte

[@CuckHunt]

@@erolal7856 Wrong, they just constantly went between constant slaughter and milking the greeks for whatever they wanted. Besides keeping the smartest of the Greeks to do tasks they themselves lacked the brainpower to do. As Bozeeke said below "The main problem with this video (besides no mention of Kapodistrias) is the fact that the Ottomans did not leave the Greeks or others they conquered to their own devices as is erroneously stated in the video. The Ottomans were brutal and treated those deemed to be infidels under their rule as second class citizens at best. At worst there were many female sex slaves in harems such as the sultan's and young boys taken from Greek or Armenian families then raised in the Ottoman military and trained to kill other Greeks and Armenians (the Janisaries they came to be known as). Part of modern day western pro-Turkish propaganda involves the down playing of prior Ottoman brutality and atrocities. In reality, the Turks have a lot to apologize and make restitution for, especially towards the Armenian people, just as the Germans had to do for their crimes against humanity after WWII."

[@Fishing_Nature25]

@@frggamer537 Armenian says other wise

[@finesseking7595]

@@Fishing_Nature25 it wasn’t genocide and there was Russian general who speaking on how Armenians were slaughtering Turks in ezurum it was war not genocide ottomans punished those who kill Armenians. Did Armenians do the same no and most historians say it was not a genocide but the results of war also if it was a genocide why hasn’t Armenian listened to turkey request of taking it to court to prove if it was genocide. For now until proven it’s not a genocide but the results of war.

[@r.anthony8685]

Impressive, I didn't expect a short YT video to be that detailed. I'm sure minor mistakes have been corrected in the comments. Keep up the good work!

[@Palladiosios]

Nice video!

[@MortalRepublic]

Nice video! - Your channel logo is so fun!

[@LookBackHistory]

Thanks, I went through a couple of iterations before I ended up sticking with this one.

[@bobancholich8279]

Monastere (Bitola) , FYROM is an old GREEK city.

[@user-mr2fn4pq3t]

Can you make a video about the first ruler of Greece ( Ioannis Kapodistrias ) ? And explain why the assassinated him . Also refer to his great management and how Greece would be different if he hadn't been assassinated.

[@Universal..]

Let us not forget the sacrifice of the Arvanites/Souliotes ... The Arvanites/Souliotes (🇦🇱) played a great role during the Greek War of Independence . The most famous of them were: - Theódoros Kolokotrónis - Markos Botzaris - Kítsos Tzavélas - Dimitrios Plapoutas - Georgios Kountouriotis - Laskarina Bouboulina - Lazaros Kountouriotis - Andreas Vokos Etc ...

[@AlexHellene]

@@Universal.. ​ More Albanian propaganda. Kolokotronis was Greek not Albanian, he mentions it in his memoirs repeatedly, and clearly distinguishes between Greeks and Albanians. He never mentions once being an Albanian. He mentions driving out and killing tens of thousands of Albanians from Southern Greece. And no, while many fighters were Albanian, most of them weren't. Kolokotronis, Georgios Karaiskakis, Mavromichalis who were the main heads of the revolutionaries, were not Albanian, nor were their forces. Read a book, like Kolokotronis' memoirs, in other words from the horse's mouth, and stop listening to Albanian propaganda, and literally spamming every video on this subject. I get it, you have to spam every video, and every reply, attempting to steal Greek history and identity, because Albania unfortunately doesn't have much of any note, itself.

[@innosanto]

Cyprus also as part of Greeks made recolution. And the Egyptian forces before going to Morea ended the revolution in Cyprus.

[@nassauguy48]

The Greek rebels had been in serious trouble, as they were no match for the Egyptians. The total success of his forces inspired the Sultan of Egypt to annex Greece for himself. It was only the intervention of the British, French and Russians that saved Greece from becoming an Egyptian province.

[@vandare6913]

"The fact is that following that of the USA, the Greek Revolution was the first liberal and national movement to succeed in Europe and developed simultaneously with similar movements in South America, while it preceded the well-known large national unifications in Europe, of Italy and Germany. The Greeks did not invent the nation-state, but they were the first in Europe to implement it." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021

[@davidbalyan]

This will really help me for my history exam. Thanks!

[@LookBackHistory]

Glad I could help!

[@pranveraohri1204]

I would advice you reliable sources.

[@davidbalyan]

@@pranveraohri1204 9 months too late. I'm starting university in a few days 😂. Thank you tho

[@hibikimurakami3279]

I'm reading the same book on the Balkans. Great VIDEO

[@SAMSAM-bc2eo]

Love this video

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

Good vid! 🙃

[@prijatarskifter7867]

Very informative

[@aaronnshybz8122]

Thanks mate

[@aypniasanagnosma]

This is by far the best video about the Greek Revolution, in English language, in YT. Lord Byron is still considered a legend by Greeks. The name "Byron" is very popular for Greek boys.

[@andreasc5433]

Let's please also praise Haiti...the first state in the world to recognise a liberated Greek nation, very early in the revolution.

[@Johnny-Thunder]

I have just returned from a journey to Greece, having visited the War Museum in Athens and having seen posters celebrating the 200th anniversary of the revolution everywhere; I had to find out how it all really happened back then...

[@tr1b1tur]

March 17, 2021 Thirty-year greek bond with an interest rate of 1.956%, with offers that exceeded 26 billion euros, while more than 250 investors participated. And yet Greece has not even officially entered the markets. You can imagine what will happen when Greece officially enters the markets again ....

[@AlLaST0I2]

​@@mavromavro4892 Γνωρίζεις πόσο ψηλό ήταν το επιτόκιο των Ελληνικών ομολόγων επί δραχμής;

[@VforValenti]

The main problem of your video, which is very good all in all and well documented, is that you refer to either Greeks or Orthodoxs showing them only to nowadays Greece or Balkans respectively. This is wrong. Greeks in particular, in that time were located also in all Anatolia's coast, mainly west (Ionia) and north (Pontus), where is some places they were locally even the majority...

[@eliaspapanikolaou3563]

Very nice cover 👌👍

[@fatkiller1000]

And to this day there is no assassin's creed-like game for the greek independence era.

[@ByZHellas]

I dont see a reason for it to be made, wouldn’t attract many buyers, but I’d def buy it if it was good!

[@user-dw5ch6ux3u]

just a little correction :at 2:53 in armatoloi the o is silent (in greek we have multiple ways of making an "i" sound and the one we use has to do with grammar and spelling, we can use : ι,η,οι,ει,υ)

[@user-ef8rt7ru5c]

Good job overall, but 2-3 things are worth noting. First, the Ottoman holdings in Balkans were crumbling. The Serbs rose in revolt in 1804 and Ali Pasha almost established and independent Epirus in 1820-1822. Additionally, the Greek goverment secured two (disastrous) loans from Brittsih banks, which prompted the Brittish goverment into military action, to protect those investments

[@bessabesse2855]

EPIRUS WAS MOSTLY ALBANIAN THAT TIME

[@spartan9540]

@@bessabesse2855 no

[@AthanasiosJapan]

Glory to Greeks who fought for the lands of their ancestors! Bye-bye evil Ottoman Empire!

[@yarenguney6410]

Bye bye greeks never come again. Maybe we will come back to islands.

[@shaneanfriends]

Well its sadly still there

[@AthanasiosJapan]

@@emrecanik1895 Greeks are Europeans, I am expecting support from other European nations (and Russia, Russians are also Europeans) when fighting against Turkish invaders from central Asia. Greeks gave to Europeans magnificent achievements in the fields of science, technology, literature, art. Turks gave to Europe nothing.

[@KazakhBoy]

@@AthanasiosJapan What about negative feelings?

[@AthanasiosJapan]

@@muharremtgt1588 I am Greece, my parents are Greek, my grandparents, my great-grandparents are Greek and my ancestors are Greek. I don't have any Slavic, Arabic, Albanian or Gypsy member in my family. I speak Greek and I understand Greek. I also understand ancient Greek. (2000-3000 years old language.) Greeks lived in Greek city states, then Macedonian Empire, then Roman (Byzantine) Empire, then Ottoman Empire, and now in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey and around those countries. Greeks never died. And why should I or any European care about Middle East? This is not my problem. By the way, Greeks speak Greek, a European language that is closer to Icelandic or German, than to any Semitic language of Middle East.

[@byzantinetales]

A very informative but still very oversimplified. If someone delves into the events they will find out how complex was the history of the Greek war of independence.

[@petrospetromixos6962]

@@iuiu8831 albania has 100 years history

[@shqiptargashi2163]

2:26 WOW didnt expect to see Captain Jack Sparrow in the greek revolution!

[@thebalkanhistorian.3205]

One little mistake. When you refer to the patriarch of Constantinople in the beginning, the image you used then and throughout the video is a picture of Bishop Germanos of Patras if I remember correctly who blessed the Greek flag at the start of the revolution.

[@bobancholich8279]

All South part of North Monkedonia FYROM Vardarska Banovina belongs to Greece , should give it back

[@ektorpolykandriotis635]

The Phanariote community moved in the Phanari neighborhood AFTER their monetary and social success. They were the elite of the empire due to their business acumen, education and cultivation. They were exclusively, Greek. Similar to what happened with the Roman conquest the Greeks were culturally more advanced than their conquerors and in time, they occupied positions of responsibility.

[@undertaker343]

IM gona put it simple. IF Greeks are not outnumbered it wont be a fair fight. Thats waht History has teached us from B.C sparta/Athens/Macedonia/Thebes untill recent years to 1821/ww1/ ww2

[@arthurdayne6768]

Haha cool story when you are rebelling against the turks while they are fighting and when you are getting support from russia its easy to say that "wE wErE oUtNuMbErEd"

[@undertaker343]

@@arthurdayne6768 ehm u need to be more spesific about Greek wars since they were fighting before the word Russia / Turks and even the word Support ever exsisted ;) and guess what they were still outnumbered back then aswell and they even fought each other at the same time and still kicked ass sooo dont be jealus its ok.. check about sparta athens VS persians and many many many other wars and eras ;) i do understand ur frustration though. its alot of history to soak in

[@arthurdayne6768]

@@undertaker343 there is not a bond between modern greeks and the ancient one by the qualities.Its nothing but ridiculous nationalism to. say that greeks were outnumbered in every war and still they won because they were not.Modern greeks under ottoman rule were just rebels taking aid from several european countries because they dont want a unified empire on their route to their colonies.

[@arthurdayne6768]

@@undertaker343 Being an older nation means nothing. Greek word exist before the American word and look to the situation of greeks and americans.

[@undertaker343]

@@arthurdayne6768 Ur butthurt. There is a bond in Ancient Greeks and Modern ones as much as there is in Chinese or any other old civilaziation. Ur point was trash about the ottoman empire and my outnumbered comment casue as i stated above Greeks were outnumbered many times and still won witohut any support. Ur clearly salty and butthurt and i love it ;) dare to ask were u from? so we can all laugh abit

[@fortdimitri2365]

If minor revolutions are to be counted, there were in total more than one revolution per year of occupation

[@ss-1917]

Long live Greece . I am from Konstantinopolis..

[@labro_x8209]

Really nice video and quite accurate

[@LookBackHistory]

Glad you think so!

[@ashwindavid6496]

nice video man

[@LookBackHistory]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! My video on what made Britain unite (linked in the description) is structured fairly similarly to this one, so if you're looking for something to watch next, I'd suggest you start there!

[@ashwindavid6496]

@@LookBackHistory i already watched it xd

[@LookBackHistory]

Nice!

[@friedrichnietzsche7376]

Same in bulgaria but the mountain raiders were called haydutes

[@dvrsify1]

I love ur work though

[@tasoslts3480]

Your videos about Greece are amazing!!

[@LookBackHistory]

Thanks! 😃

[@bobancholich8279]

Who wasn't Greek Bulgarian nor Albanian in the very short FYROMian history?

[@twista5833]

Saved me such much time and got me a 100% on my project! thanks so much man :DD

[@johnchatzisavvas8627]

Just a little correction the guy at 1:58 isnt the patriarch he is Palaion patron germanos a guy that helped with the revolution

[@thulios2018]

Kephts = Thieves Armartoloi = Armed It's sounds more badass in Greek

[@voskreglavincevska3651]

Thank you for the explain . I didnt remember what was the meaning !Grigor Prliçev wrote the poem O Armatolos and win the pize in Athen's competition !

[@maskinisten019]

They were both Albanian in origin.

[@AlexHellene]

Good video. Also I like how you simplistically describe the difference between the Klephts and the Armatoloi.

[@PainterSonic]

Great video. Any thoughts on making a video about the still divided European country by the Turks? invasion of Cyprus in the 70’s .

[@LookBackHistory]

I actually already have, you can watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5LHqGmeiZ5nac0

[@eliaspapanikolaou3563]

2 days ago " Kings and General s : " Chanel on you tube the second d part of Greek revolution who ever dide t see first see it and then watch the second part

[@ComradeHellas]

Okay cool will watch

[@moutsatsosa]

A small correction but pivotal for the political correctness of the etymology of the ethnicity.Prometheus warns his son Deukalion about the eminent cataclysm,Deukalion builds a boat,everyone knows the rest well at least with a slight name change.Deukalion and his wife Pyra along with those that managed to take shelter atop high mountains survive.Deukalion has a son named Hellin and a grandson named Greckos son of Pandora i m sure some have heard of her.Greckos moved to what we today call Italy and made the first colonies there hence romans called those that spoke that language greckus but the citizens of what is today Greece,Cyprus,Minor Asia,Anatolia its a big list,they all decent from Hellin and his offspring and therefore they are of house Hellin not to be confused with their relatives of house Greckos who still live in some cities in south Italy.

[@thanoskoumpanis9699]

Great video!!!

[@dimokratisnt3637]

how does this guy not have 4 million subscribers

[@johnnyt4282]

Being Greek is a blessing from god.

[@imperfectcell7081]

It is a burden

[@Aprilius_Ceasar]

Are you a Greek ?

[@xyhjkj]

Chill a little

[@Aprilius_Ceasar]

@@xyhjkj He didn't said anything bad and it kinda is .

[@justinianthegreat154]

yeah ! Not is, but was! with our government today is not a blessing mate

[@Gia1911Logous]

Well... the Ionian islands weren't the only things Venice had They also had Crete and Cyprus and at some point Morea / the Peloponnese The Ionian islands were also British during the revolution

[@ektorpolykandriotis635]

Between 1425 and 1821 there were circa 170 revolutionary movements against Ottoman rule

[@LookBackHistory]

Absolutely true, and I regret not making it clearer. In my defense, I called the Orlov revolt the first "major" revolt against the Turks, and then explained why later. I intentionally didn't call it the outright first revolt, which I think does imply that there were revolts before it, but again, I should have been clearer. It really only would have needed a sentence and I should have included that.

[@ektorpolykandriotis635]

@@LookBackHistory you have done an excellent job, we just add our "insider" comments to enrich and clarify. Thank you for your work, you have done justice to Greek/Hellenic history and the origins of European history.

[@Sunflower-il8qd]

this video was the only was i was able to write my paper on the greek revolution

[@user-pu9lk8lm5z]

nice video!a great vicotry of greeks is the battle of kleisoba.greeks were 131 and tourks with egyptians 6000+.eventually greeks killed more than 4000 and lost 24 men.there are many battles from 1821-1828 like the battle of kleisoba.we always had more less men but win almost all the battles.

[@thelemonade5480]

Hani Gravias battle 120Greeks vs 8000turks 0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣2️⃣1️⃣

[@thelemonade5480]

2️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ ALAMANA BATTLE 1500 Greeks vs 8000 infantry + 1000 horsemen

[@thelemonade5480]

1️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ ΑBLIANI'S BATTLE 3000Greeks vs 12000Ottomans

[@thelemonade5480]

"Αλβανοί, Αρβανίτες, Ελληνες" Βιβλίο Σαράντος Ι. Καργάκος. Λύνει απορίες. Διαβάζεται πριν το φαγητό χωρίς αλκοόλ & χωρίς "μπάφο".

[@KiNGGAMESgr]

@@iuiu8831 bahaha nice one

[@rockinrocketman]

Very interesting, great job

[@ektorpolykandriotis635]

The first governor of the reconstituted Greek state was Ioannis Kapodistrias, until then secretary of foreign affairs of Imperial Russia, the menace of Metternich and the man who literaly designed Switzerland (where he is considered a national hero). Also at the time of the Greek liberation the population of Greeks in the Mediterranean equaled that of Great Britain.

[@gubernatorial1723]

And the Greeks were better off than their British counterparts, a ripe seedbed for nationalism.

[@TheFlyingGreekman]

Well done! Thank you!

[@lakistojkovic190]

Are there any articles you would recommend for reading about the Greek revolution? Excellent video by the way.

[@LookBackHistory]

For a general overview, read the Britannica page on it: www.britannica.com/event/War-of-Greek-Independence For something more specific, here's a transcript of a lecture from MSU: staff.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lecture6.html

[@Venakis1]

Nice video pal! I'd like to point out that the civil war during the revolution was mostly the politicians fault, they wanted absolute control over the arms leaders despite having no clue of how to win against the greater ottoman armies. Theodoros Kolokotronis was the best man for the job, he was the general of the Greek forces and he led to victory many times the smaller and ill equipped Greeks against better odds. He was very popular among the people and the politicians were afraid of him and even managed to prison him for no reason. They were forced to free him and promote him general again when Ibrahim's forces were laying waste to the country. He did his best to hold the Egyptian army back. Funny thing is that after independence, under Otto's rule he was charged with treason under false facts. The judges refused to find him guilty and one of them even said "How can I find Kolokotronis guilty of treason against Greece? He IS Greece. We stand here today free from the Turks because of his actions." The sad truth about the Greek struggle of 1821 is that most of the legendary fighters and leaders were pushed away from the politicians and many of them died extremely poor, others were assassinated from fellow countrymen, instead of getting recognition for their struggle...

[@Venakis1]

@@iuiu8831 Spare me the albanian propaganda please. Arvanites were Christians and fought for the Christians. Albanians were muslims and fought for the turks. The division was mostly from religion at start and developed to ethnic struggle. Kapodistrias was the first governor of Greece up until his assassination. Otto came later.

[@linusp9316]

@@iuiu8831 You keep spamming this everywhere, but thankfully nobody believes you. You're wasting your energy with that nonsense.

[@AKRIDASGAMWEKSOGIINI]

I'm wondering why everyone is complaining about Kapodistrias being left out but not about saying that Kolokotronis had gone rogue

[@Venakis1]

@@AKRIDASGAMWEKSOGIINI You are right, it's completely wrong that Kolokotronis had gone rogue, don't know where he got that.

[@babyblooddistilleriesinc3131]

To add to this, Kolokotronis's son was assasinated.

[@salmansingh66]

I'm genuinely surprised of the fact that Greece actually needed very little help in their indevers probs

[@nassauguy48]

They actually needed help when the Egyptians, at the request of the Turks, entered the war. The Egyptian army was badly beating the Greeks to the point where the Sultan of Egypt announced that he was going to annex Greece for himself. It was then that Britain, France and Russia intervened to save Greece from becoming an Egyptian province.

[@outerspace7391]

@@nassauguy48 Egypt was at super Saiyan levels strong. A few years after the Greek revolution, they'll turn against the Ottoman Empire, conquer the entirety of Syria and Transjordan until the Ottomans ask for help from the West to put Egypt back to its place

[@nassauguy48]

@@outerspace7391 Exactly. The Egyptians were literally a bad ass force who not only erased all territorial gains the Greeks had made against the Turks, but well beyond that within a matter of six weeks.

[@Da__goat]

King Otto really held back Greece throughout his entire rule because of his allegiances to the German powers. And this friction is what resulted in many failings of the state to capitalize on Ottoman weakness to recover its lost territories.

[@eaglemars6123]

Great video. Accurate and viewer friendly. Congrats.

[@jasonrichards2844]

It's funny how the Greek people were supposed to be celebrating freedom from the Turks and yet they did not have the freedom to attend the parade to commemorate this important occasion!

[@joek600]

I guess we ll have to thank China

[@polytrelaras1]

@@joek600 Lol!!

[@polytrelaras1]

Being suicidal is not wise or an act of freedom.

[@linusp9316]

Shakespeare wrote "The better part of valor is discretion", and that often proves its truth. Recklessness has no place.

[@deanobonitop1610]

Damn comment

[@watup3494]

Love Greeks from Kurdistan 🥰😍🤩

[@jimmyjimmy7923]

And this is how the greek flag came up. Its 5 blue stripes comes from the 5 syllables Ε-ΛΕΥ-ΘΕ-ΡΙ-Α (freedom) and the 4 white stripes from the 4 syllables Ή ΘΑ-ΝΑ-ΤΟΣ (or death). The cross symbolizes our christian orthodox religion.

[@TheBdsmer]

In Ottoman Empire the word Turk meant DONKEY, its a fact! Thanks for the video about the Greek Independence, it is 99% accurate. I would like to add that there were a lot of failed revolutions before 1821, we Greeks tried to liberate our lands but Europeans were afraid of a second Byzantine Empire (that's why they helped Kemal later with guns and German Officers)

[@spiritusIRATUS]

Lol that's so wrong and full of greek anachronistic nationalist crap. FYI the term "Byzantine" was coined by a German historian to discredit the o.g Roman Empire in favour of the Holy Roman Empire, i.e a medieval German loose confederation. The "Byzantines" were caled Rhomaioi/Rhomioi of course and their state Basileia Rhomaion. Stop using it.

[@Tsotsis1]

@@spiritusIRATUS Indeed.the term byzantine is later on.People called themselves romans.

[@AlLaST0I2]

@Kadir Garip When you say that they called themselves "Romans", you mean the word "rum" ?

[@AlLaST0I2]

@Kadir Garip Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that muslim Ottomans called themselves "Rum".

[@IAT1964]

@@iuiu8831 I have heard this crap before. Albanian language has nothing to do with Greek. Linguistically and genetically, Albanians and Greeks are different. Of course populations do mix, and there is still a prosecuted Greek minority in southern Albania.

[@stoikusu5084]

I love how Russia just stands there above the Balkans like a fucking God

[@giorgoschatzinikolaou8285]

If this was greek, i could write all of it down as a giant essay for the story of greeces independence Edit: i learnt this from school (im greek of course) and damn is this True, he annalised it down to the bone

[@spirosdapergolas7592]

Kλέφτς - Αρματολάι..................καιρό ειχα να γελάσω τόσο!

[@YiannissB.]

Ε τώρα και σύ. Πες κι ένα μπράβο για το ενδιαφέρον και το κόπο του.

[@polytrelaras1]

Πρόσεξε μην σκίσεις κανένα καλσόν από τα γέλια.

[@metaxist]

Άσε ρε Πίπη

[@LNL-kc3lc]

🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷Thank you Greece

[@MaxStArlyn]

10:44 Excepted?…well I guess they had no choice. They certainly didn’t like the idea of a foreign king ruling over them.

[@evangeliakaratza-styliara4413]

Not bad at all!

[@abradolflincler726]

Moria is from Lord of the Rings; Morea (more-eh-uh) is in Greece.

[@georgeplagianos6487]

Well that's a lot of interest in Greek history before during and after the revolution.. I wonder what you think of the janissaries the Turks the ottomans at setup all during the years of occupation??..

[@gpan62]

The uprising of 1821 gained the support of large numbers of Greeks because of increasingly oppressive taxation by the Ottomans

[@lehistoryconnoisseur1441]

"there won't be another month-long gap between this video and the next!"

[@LookBackHistory]

In my defense, I said "with any luck" :)

[@LookBackHistory]

the follow up video to this one is in the works tho

[@lehistoryconnoisseur1441]

@@LookBackHistory No i'm just kidding. Sorry for late reply. Take as long as you need if you need to focus on University focus on that. I wont tell you what to spend your time on. :)

[@LookBackHistory]

@@lehistoryconnoisseur1441 The next video is done and will be up at 7:15am PST tomorrow :)