Greek Nationalism

Greek Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire

Introduction

The mount of the Western nationalism idea under the Ottoman Empire finally produced the collapse of the Ottoman millet notion. With the weakening of the Eastern Roman Empire, the unsurpassed function of Greek literature, culture and language got more clear. After the 12th century with the protective drop of the Empire to firmly Greek speaking parts, the old multinational practice, previously destabilized yielded a self-knowingly national Greek realization and a larger significance in Hellenic traditions developed.

Engaging the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula and including some 3700 islands in the Aegean and Ionian seas, the Hellenic Republic is populated overpoweringly by Greeks but also comprises little minority factions of Pomaks, Roma, Turks, and others. Since the early 1990s many immigrants from other Balkan and East European countries, Albania, South Asia, and the Middle East have inhabited in Greece and considerably changed the country's social fabric. More than 95% of the people speak modern Greek (dimotiki), a more traditional type (katharevoussa) no longer being utilized in either university or government spheres. Common residents belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church, whose position is controlled by Article 3 of the Constitution. (Ecclesiastical decisions are subject to appeal at the Supreme Administrative Court and clergy salaries are paid by the state). This paper discusses Greek nationalism in the Ottoman empire.

Discussion

Greek nationalism has its origins in the growth of nationalism in Europe in the 19th century, and was typified by the independence struggle against the Ottoman Empire, finishing in the Greek War of Independence, supported by philhellenes. The Greek Revolution which is also recognized as the Greek War of Independence was a victorious independence war fought by the Greek revolutionaries. In fact, the Greek Revolution was not an secluded event; many unsuccessful efforts at recovering sovereignty occurred during the Ottoman period. Just as the uprising started, there were major mass murders of people by both Ottoman authorities and Greek revolutionaries.

Greece is both a very new and a very old country. Not until 1829 were Greeks capable of ending 04 centuries of Turkish power and to make an self-governing nation-state. That state and the country's modern culture and culture bear little similarity to the ancient Greece that so many people have liked all over the centuries. The large body of Greek conventional literature and the several glorious ruins mirror the magnificence of the olden history. But the contemporary Greeks' approach to life and understanding of themselves have been formed far more notably by the Orthodox Church, the Byzantine past (324 A.D. to 1453), and 04 centuries of Turkish control than by the Greece of antiquity.

Greece existed under the symbol of the Islamic half-moon for almost 400 years until it got its sovereignty in 1829. But it was Byzantine in tradition, embodied and protected by the Orthodox Church, which offered the power of survival and the sense of enlightening autonomy. The Church kept Greek identity breathing, fought any effort to reduce the use of the Greek language, protected Greek culture ...