Independence At the beginning of the 19th century, with the reconstitution of the patriotic secret society Eteria, the anti-Turkish movement acquired new vigor. In 1821 the Greece rose up: Alessandro Ipsilanti on 7 March entered Moldavia, where he tried in vain to raise the Romanian population and then occupied Bucharest with a few Greeks, but was forced to take refuge…
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Greece Architecture and Urban Planning
The art of independent Greece (after about 1830) can now be divided into two great moments: a nineteenth-century one, which also goes beyond the limits of the century and which is more directly connected to the European phenomena of neoclassicism, romanticism, realism and, sometimes, of an involuntary neo-Byzantineism, and a contemporary one, which, especially after…