After the outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821, the Catholics of the Aegean islands declared their neutrality in the Greek-Ottoman conflict, raised the French flag on top of their churches and refused all appeals, offers or requests made to them by the Greek insurgents. What followed involves a little-known aspect of the Greek War of Independence, a tale of revolutionary agitation, but also of conquest, subjugation, land appropriation and, in the case of Syros, colonization.
Dimitris Kousouris is Researcher in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) and has taught Modern History in the EHESS, and in the Universities of Crete, Constance, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago and Vienna.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
