ioannis kapodistrias

Your challenge should you choose to accept, is to devise a scenario around the premise of the Phanariotes leading the Greek Independence Movements and the formation of an independent Greek state. How would a successful Phanariot Greece develop in terms of culture/politics/economics? Many...

Chapter 1: The Spark of Revolution The Ottoman Empire, 1801 On the 22nd of February 1821, the Phanariot Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Pruth River into the Danubian Principality of Moldavia and in doing so sparked an open revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Across all of Rumelia, Greeks rose...