| Hellenic Republic Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Timeline: Cherry, Plum, and Chrysanthemum
OTL equivalent: Greece minus Western Thrace and Northern Macedonia | ||||||
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| Motto: Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος (Greek) ("Freedom or Death") |
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| Anthem: Ýmnos is tin Eleftherían |
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 Location of Greece
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| Capital | Athens | |||||
| Official languages | Greek | |||||
| Religion | Christianity; Islam; Irreligion | |||||
| Demonym | Greek; Hellenic | |||||
| Government | Unitary state; Constitutional parliamentary republic | |||||
| Legislature | Parliament of Greece | |||||
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| - | Independence from the Ottoman Empire | January 1, 1822 | ||||
| Currency | Euro (EUR) |
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| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |||||
| Internet TLD | .gr, .ελ | |||||
| Calling code | +30 | |||||
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα Elláda), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Ellīnikî Dīmokratía), is a country located in Southeastern Europe with population is slightly less than 11 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, its metropolitan area also including the municipality of Piraeus. Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa and has land borders with Albania and Serbia to the north. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Greece was ruled by the Ottomans by the mid-15th century, after the fall of Constantinople. Only the Ioanian Islands that laid outside the Ottoman influence, controlled by the thalassocratic Republic of Venice. Following the fall of Venice during the Napoleonic Wars in May 1797, the Ionian Islands were occupied by the French Republic. At the advice of Greek nationalist Rigas Feraios, the first Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Πολιτεία Ellīnikî Polīteíā) was established on the islands with Napoleon Bonaparte as its president. Despite being a French client state, with the institutions of the new republic resembled to those of France, the republic was the first self-governed, since the Middle Ages, Hellenic state to be established.
Originally widely welcomed, French rule began to grow oppressive to the islanders, and aroused the enmity of the Ottomans and the Russians. In 1798, the Ottomans and Russians jointly invaded the republic, ousted the French and made the republic a Russo-Ottoman protectorate in 1799. The islands were returned to the French control in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit; the Kingdom of the Hellenes (Βασίλειον των Ελλήνων Basíleion ton Ellínon) was declared in the islands with Napoleon as its king and Demetrio Stefanopoli as his viceroy. The French were ousted from most of the islands by the British in 1809–10, leaving only Corfu, Paxoi, and the mainland exclave of Parga in French-Greek controls until 1814. In 1815, the British established the United States of the Ionian Islands.
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