Greece rises against the Ottomans
1821 · Event
After Ypsilantis's doomed thrust across the Pruth, the Peloponnese explodes: within weeks the Greek flag flies over the Morea and the Ottoman garrisons are besieged. The 25th of March — blended with the feast of the Annunciation — becomes Greece's national day, and Europe's Romantics have found their cause.
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