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The events for the 200 years of the Greek Revolution begin
The last "touches" are coming for tomorrow's special military parade on March 25, which will take place without people this year due to the restrictive measures in force for the pandemic.
Freedom or Death: How Adamantios Koraes Transformed Greek Thought Into the Greek Revolution of 1821
The clerical dilemma
The Turkish conquest of Greece in 1453 was a calamity. The best Greeks left the country for Europe. Resistance to the occupiers never ceased, though the Sultan gave the Orthodox clergy a privileged position.
One of the best Greeks who left the country was Adamantios Koraes, 1748-1833. He worked in Paris -- far from his hometown of Smyrna and the Turks. He knew the double life of the clergy.
In public, he expressed his respect for Orthodox Christianity and the clergy. A few times, however, he revealed his anger and lashed out at those of the senior ecclesiastics serving the Turks. He did that anonymously.
Schoolchildren create video for bicentenial of Greek revolution
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek Revolution, in March 1821. The thirst for freedom and independence united all Greeks, rich and poor, intellectuals and illiterates, military and political, merchants and church people.