Mouvements nationaux et sociaux en Grèce au XIXe siècle

Abstract

The general historical setting is the Balkan Peninsula from the middle of the XVnth to the beginning of the XIXth century. Within this general setting, the author focuses on Greece and on the prevailing conditions that enabled Greek traders establish flourishing enterprises.
The intellectual and economic developments of these times were instrumental in creating the conditions that brought about the awakening of the ideals of national liberation. These ideals culminated in Rhegas Pherraios and in the Philiki Etairia which triggered off the Greek War of Independence of 1821.
The author stresses the issue of Rhegas Pherraios’s concepts for a Pan-Balkan cooperation against the Ottoman rule, along with the importance of the Greek War of Independence in bringing about the struggle for liberation among the other ethnic groups of the peninsula.