Sunday, April 17, 2011

Greece - The Turkish occupation of Crete

This gentlemen, is not it time for a different rite in the Christian church, but of a different faith. The island has been divided into three pachalics Heraklion and was known from the site until Megalo Kastro, the great fortress ruled. Ottoman rule was initially not particularly destructive, but it was completely indifferent to the economic situation of nature, creating serious difficulties and hardships. Turkey directors of urban life at a disadvantagefor safety and because it is more suitable to their traditions and their mosques (churches applied without exceptions), and a few houses in towns along the north coast are the only visible evidence of foreign occupation, which lasted more than 200 years.

There is a fierce discrimination against Christians, especially those relating to taxation and property were affected: survival depended on it, often compromised, and conversions to Islam were tacticsoften understandable. There was a sharp contrast between the districts of vulnerable lowland and mountain regions are remote and difficult access, where sporadic rebellion and intrigue for the cause of independence was a way of life. Unfortunately, people in the plains are often necessary to stop the harassment, when the Warriors moved to support their mountain strongholds.

In 1770 a major revolt was led by the legendary proud Daskaloyiannis CIOs Sfakia Cretewas taken by the Russians as part of a diversion, to promote its strategy on the continent. The rebellion collapsed, its leader was suffering and was executed, and Sfakia accordingly.

Across the island, the leadership is expected, often in secret monasteries and dangerous circumstances. Their efforts were directed not only to protect the Orthodox Church, but also by the formation of the preservation of Greek cultural tradition, the ultimate goalthe independence of Crete.

In a more general, Crete had become a pawn in international power politics, this time in the world of great powers in post-Napoleonic Europe, then Britain, France, Italy and Russia. The revolt of 1821, triggered the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence. was presented with Egypt in 1832 when the state was founded not include greek Crete. had to endure the humiliation of ten years of the Egyptian government.

L 'greek throne was Prince Otto of Wittelsbach, where, and under the protection of Great Britain, Russia and France, but this attempt to establish a stable constitutional government failed, and in 1862, Otto was filed. A Danish prince became King George I of Greece, a hint of concession to the idea of ​​a Greek team in general. In Crete renewed protest Enosis, union with Greece, led the revolt of "1866, when women and children in the area of ​​deadMonastery of Arkadi has great sympathy for the situation in Crete.

Greece has had problems with attention to its northern border and its relations with the major powers used often stretched to the point of hostility. Riots continue in Crete until 1898, when the forces finally seized the opportunity of peace talks between Greece and the Ottoman Empire on the continent of a settlement on the island of fines. Crete was granted autonomous status under the Ottoman EmpireSovereignty and a High Commissioner was appointed in the person of Prince George, second son of the greek kings, who ruled from Chania.

In a new crisis in 1906 was in Prince George. His reign of eight years of Enosis was not as close, and clashed with insurgents in Crete Assembly, formed a rival government are committed to the cause of union with Greece. One of its leaders was Eleftherios Venizelos. Born in 1864 in Chania (although technically a greek theme) that hadhas emerged as a young man in the struggle for independence for the island, and is now an influential member of the Assembly, first hoisted the flag Greek island of Crete, two Prophitis hill, overlooking the Akrotiri Chania. The crisis was temporarily appointed veteran Alexander Zaimis resolved as High Commissioner, but two years later in Athens Venizelos called in an atmosphere of nationalist rebellion, and after a revision of the Constitution, became Prime Ministerin Greece for the first time.

In 1913, Gnosis was finally reached. The Treaty of Bucharest, which ended the war in the Balkans. Greek sovereignty of Crete has been approved and in the midst of scenes of wild jubilation on the island to become an integral part of the Greek nation.

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