The bitter struggle that created modern Greece and Turkey. Since the fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks in 1453, the dream of Greeks had been to recover all Greek inhabited lands held by the Turks – European Greece, the Aegean Islands, western and northern Anatolia, even Constantinople itself. After Greece’s 1821-28 war of independence, the …
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