Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Has nostalgia become the Greeks’ national disease?

Ever since Constantinople fell to the Ottomans, the Greeks have longed for the restoration of the Byzantine empire, says Roderick Beaton

The Battle of Navarino, 1827, in which Allied forces defeated the Ottomans and helped pave the way for Greek independence. [Getty Images]
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  • The Greeks: A Global History

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