What to Know About Ottoman Greece....

The Ottoman Empire once possessed the greater part of Greece. The occupation started with the taking of Constantinople in the fifteenth century and proceeded until the point that the Greeks won freedom in the mid nineteenth century. It was a period in which Greeks ended up oppressed to the degree that many opposed Ottoman principle, which finished in their freedom. The Greek individuals were involved for almost four hundred years previously picking up their autonomy. Here's a diagram of Ottoman Greece:

After the split of the old Roman Empire, for over a thousand years Greece was a piece of the Eastern Roman Empire. Be that as it may, this realm was debilitated impressively in the mid thirteenth century when crusaders sacked and quickly possessed Constantinople. At the around a similar time, the Ottoman Empire was spreading west. In the fourteenth century, amid a progression of fights, they vanquished the Serbian Kingdom, leaving Greece defenseless. 

The Ottomans caught Constantinople in 1453. In the years that pursued, they further took Athens (1458) and the Peloponnese promontory (1460). In the following century, they took the Cyclades Islands and Cyprus, and a century after that Crete fell. Special cases to Ottoman principle incorporated the Ionian Islands and various ports, for example, Methone, Monemvasia, Nafplio and Parga. Additionally free of occupation was a large portion of the nation's mountain region, where numerous Greeks relocated and battled Ottoman standard. 

Greeks who stayed under Ottoman occupation frequently endured hardships. The administration vigorously saddled non-Muslims, and they coercively recruited vast gatherings of Greek young men into the military and raised them as Muslims. Greek young ladies were likewise regularly compelled to work in arrays of mistresses. In spite of the fact that Greeks were generally allowed to rehearse their religion, and the Orthodox Church was given power and impact over individuals' every day lives. 

Life for some, Greeks started to enhance monetarily starting in the seventeenth century, and with riches they could head out to Western Europe, where they wound up presented to thoughts that would touch off a patriot development. The blazes of patriotism were additionally lighted by the Russians, who were wanting to utilize it for their very own advantage as they struggled the Ottomans for amazingness in the locale. Another impetus of Greek patriotism was France's catching of the Ionian Islands from Venice toward the finish of the eighteenth century. Greeks living on the islands got a noteworthy level of self-rule, which was the principal taste of opportunity Greeks had in almost 350 years. 

While there were uprisings all through Ottoman principle, the new patriot development energized the main real ones toward the finish of the eighteenth century. At that point, with the help of Greek outcasts just as Russia and others, on March 25, 1821 a national uprising was declared. In the procedure decade, there was much viciousness, and numerous Greeks and Turks were slaughtered, yet in 1828 the Ottomans were at long last ousted. after 4 years, Greece formally turned into an autonomous state. 

Greek individuals endured four centuries of occupation amid Ottoman guideline, however they were never genuinely crushed. They in the long run picked up their autonomy, which empowered them to shape the cutting edge country of Greece