History of modern Greece
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The history of modern Greece covers the history of Greece from the recognition by the Great Powers — the United Kingdom, France and Russia — of its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1828 to the
Ioannis Kapodistrias
Face and Obverse of a Phoenix coin.
The murder of Ioannis Kapodistrias by Charalambos Pachis.
The Entry of King Otto of Greece into Athens by Peter von Hess.
Konstantinos Karamanlis
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Konstantinos G. Karamanlis was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic, serving in the former role from 1955 to 1963 and
Karamanlis in 1978
Karamanlis with Averoff and Turkish PM Menderes (centre) during conversations in Zurich
Konstantinos Karamanlis, his cabinet with Deputy Prime Minister Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (front left) and German Vice-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard with a German/European delegation during a visit by Erhard to sign the protocols of Greece's Treaty of Association with the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1961. Paul-Henri Spaak is second from the right (front row).
During a visit to the Netherlands, 1963