Chapter 8

• Early Greek people on the peninsula and islands

  • Lived in separate city-states that coexisted or at times warred with each other
  • Little need for formal boundaries, so there were none
  • Populations being small, for the most part there was room for everyone
  • Some people left their mother cities at times and migrated in search of more space, safety, adventure, or to create an independent community that better suited to the colonists' needs
• Greece was not different from other places and peoples in ancient times
• Over the centuries, some of the Greek states covered larger areas for varying periods
• During the reign of Philip II of Macedonia, his conquests and alliances unified for a time the larger part of the Greek peninsula
• The cities in the area that includes what we now call the nation of Greece were unified for the first time in 146 BC, under Roman occupation
• This territory remained under one conqueror or another for nearly 2000 years
• Formation of the modern Greek state

  1. Revolution of 1821 ended in 1832 with the independence of a part of Greece

  2. Britain, France, and Russia among the Great Powers of Europe, determined how much of Greece was to be liberated

  3. They also selected a 17-year-old Bavarian, Prince Otto (Othon in Greek), to place on a previously nonexistent Greek throne

  4. The seven Ionian islands off Greece's western coast in the Adriatic Sea were voluntarily ceded to Greece by the British in 1864

  5. Greece liberated much of the area she desired in Epiros and Macedonia in 1912

  6. Greece acquired parts of western Thrace and additional northern territories in 1913

  7. Greece gained the Aegean-fronting area between Kavalla and the Evros River from Bulgaria in 1919

  8. The Dodecanese islands were turned over to Greece in 1947
• The formation of the modern Greek state was a process that started only in 1821 and ended in 1947