In the spring of 1827, the Greeks were getting trounced by the Ottomans... By the fall of 1827, the Ottoman-Egyptian navy was in the bottom of the ocean and the Greeks were on the verge of officially gaining their independence. So... what the heck happened? Well, the Great Powers happened!

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Things are beginning to look bleak for the Greeks as the might of the Egyptian army turns the war in favor of the Ottomans. But then, stories of the heroic sacrifices of the townspeople of Missolonghi begin to spread throughout Europe, making Great Power intervention all but inevitable.

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As Romanticism becomes ever more popular in 1820's Europe, Greek culture emerges as a fad. Philhellenism, aka "love of Greek culture," would gain adherents amongst some of the biggest names of the day like Jeremy Bentham, Percy Shelly, Delacroix, and Rossini. But the most famous Philhellene of them all, Lord Byron, would fully take the plunge, arriving in Greece in 1824.

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Alexandros Mavrokordatos was one smart cookie who somehow managed to get a bunch of rivalrous warlords, aristocrats, and highway robbers to put aside their differences and sign on to his constitution, forming modern Greece's first national administration.

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So... how did a ragtag group of Greek revolutionaries manage take nearly the entire Peloponnese from the mighty Ottomans in just a week? Check it out, to find out!

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Wherein the Phanariot Greeks form a secret "society of friends" and then launch the Greek Revolution by crossing the River Pruth. And Alexandros Ypsilantis is like: "Guys, the Russians are coming to help us... I promise?"

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The Serbs: our very first revolution in this podcast about revolutions! (and yeah, I know... it's a 19th century revolution)

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How did the Ottomans become so powerful? By going out a-conquering!

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Welcome to 20th Century Revolutions! Happy to have you here :-)

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