L'insurrection d'Avril et l'opinion publique grecque

Abstract

The author traces the repercussion the Insurrection of April 1687 had in theAthenian newspapers of the time, and the interest they showed in publishing detailed news on the event. He goes on to relate the urge of the Balkan people for continuing the strife against the Turks, as well as the efforts of the Bulgarian emigrants in Athens and their collaboration with the Greeks to start a revolt inThessaly and elsewhere. Among the leaders of that effort, the main figure was Leonid Voulgaris who was
instrumental in collecting the means for providing the insurgents with amunitions and other necessary provisions. These efforts, though, were doomed to fail because of the general international conditions.