In 1882, the Tatoy Manor of the Athenian royal family was located on a hillside in the north of Athens, covering an area of 4,500 hectares. The manor had lush forests and green grass.
The quiet and quiet Tatoy Palace is the palace of the Greek royal family, and the king's family will come here to cool off in the middle of summer.
Sitting on a wooden chair in the garden of the Tatoy Palace, Wang Lin took a nap, thinking about the experiences of these years in his mind, giving people a sense of absurdity.
Wang Lin was originally a tourist who went to Athens, the capital of Greece, to play in the 21st century. When he was exhausted, he leaned against a tree in the Tatoy Palace, the old site of the Kingdom of Sila.
When he woke up, he found that he had become a baby. In the days that followed, Wang Lin gradually understood his situation and he passed through.
His current identity is the son of King George I of Greece.
George I was the first monarch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Zonderberg-Glücksburg dynasty in Greece. After the dethronement of King Otto I of Greece in 1862, the British elected the 18-year-old at the time. Prince George of Denmark came to Greece to become king.
The ancestor of George I's mother, Bohemia and Anna of Hungary (wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I), he is a descendant of the Komunin dynasty of Byzantium (another name for the descendants of Eastern Rome).
Through his father's ancestor Amedio VI, Earl of Savoy, he was a descendant of the Valleio dynasty of the Byzantine Empire.
The mother is the Grand Duke Olga Constantinovna of Russia, and the grandfather of Olga Constantinovna is the Russian Tsar Nicholas I.
In a blink of an eye, Constantine has lived in Athens for fifteen years, and has long been accustomed to life here, but whenever he thinks of his past experiences, he can't help but sigh the unpredictable and unpredictable things of the world.
The name Constantine was given at the request of the Greek people.
In 1571, the last princess of the Eastern Roman Empire, Sophia Paleorog, the niece of the last emperor Constantine XI of Eastern Rome, married the Russian King Ivan II. Since then, the Russian royal family has owned the Roman royal family. The blood lineage claims to be the successor of the Roman Empire, calling itself the Third Roman Empire.
George I succeeded the king, which means that Constantine has the blood of the Roman royal family, and his body is flowing with the blood of the Roman emperor.
The Greeks hope that one day, the crown prince named Constantine, the king with the blood of the Roman emperor in his body, can once again rule the great city with the same name as him, Constantinople.
And this city is now the capital of the Ottoman Empire!
Her name is now Istanbul, the largest city in the later Turkish Republic!
Being a monarch in Europe is not as easy as people think, especially the monarchs of small and weak countries often have to be splinted.
In 1830, the Greek people fought unremittingly and valiantly and finally gained independence from Ottoman Turkey, known as a national prison.
Speaking of Greece, people's first impression is that it is an ancient civilization with a long history, the birthplace of Western civilization, and the birthplace of democracy. It was born and gave birth to philosophers, famous scholars Aristotle, Socrates, developed commerce and engaged in democracy. The city-state of Athens, Sparta, who is endowed with a strong martial spirit, and so on.
However, these things are extremely distant history for the Greeks in the 19th century.
In 1881, in response to the strong request of the Greek people, the Berlin Conference organized by Bismarck agreed to cede Ottoman Turkey's Thessaly to the Kingdom of Greece. The original territory of the Kingdom of Greece, together with Thessaly, covers an area of no more than 50,000 square kilometers.
Greece in 1882 was a downright small and impoverished European country, located in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula. It is inconspicuous if history is not considered.
However, the Greeks have a great ideal, which is to restore the glory of the past.
The Greek region has been under Roman rule since it was conquered by the ancient Roman Empire, until the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, and continued until the Ottoman Turk Empire destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in 1453.
Eastern Rome was heavily Hellenistic in the middle and late stages, and Greek became the official language of the empire. Orthodox churches used Greek for missions. The title of emperor was no longer Romanesque Augustus or Caesar, but Barcelius in Greek ( Greek name for the king).
As the remnants of the Roman Empire, the Greeks were ruled by the Ottoman Empire for 300 years and finally became independent.
Naturally, the Greeks, who have thousands of years of history, a splendid civilization and a long culture, gave birth to a strong desire to restore the glory of the past.
The specific manifestation is to regain the territory and take back the places where the Greeks dominate and are still ruled by the Ottoman Empire.
To regain the place where the Greek inhabitants still dominated by foreign countries is to restore Greece to the territory of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire.
This matter has become the most concerned public issue of the Greek people.
The Greek nationalists in 1878 proposed the land and population to realize their great ideals. They included:
First, the European part of Ottoman Turkey, Thrace, has 729,000 residents.
Second, Macedonia has 588,000 Greeks.
Third, Epirus, there are 618,000 Greeks.
Fourth, Thessaly, 248,000 Greeks.
fifth,The islands in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean where many Greeks live, such as Crete, Kos, Cyprus, Mytilene, etc., add up to 722,000 people.
Sixth, the Asian territories of Ottoman Turkey, Asia Minor has 1.188 million Greeks, and Syria and Palestine have 150,000 Greeks.
These add up to a total of 432.5 nights for Greeks.
This is almost all the core territory of Ottoman Turkey.
Thinking of this, Constantine couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly, holding his forehead with his hand, trying to control his emotions, and could only sigh in his heart: He is really ambitious.
This ideal is so lofty and great, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, inspired by this ideal, the Greeks are floating, restless, and heartily venting their national sentiments.
However, as far as the gap between reality and ideals is, the greek suffering is so profound.
As of 1882, the Kingdom of Greece included Thessaly, which had just been recovered, and there were only about 800,000 Greeks living on the territory! ! !
The Greek peninsula is mostly mountainous, and 80% of the territory is mountainous and hilly. Only about 16% of the land suitable for cultivation is barren, and the harvest of food crops is not high.
Since independence, they have not even been able to support themselves in food, and they have to import food on a large scale every year.
In order to survive, the ancient Greeks were forced to vigorously develop overseas trade. Because their land was not fertile, they could only grow grapes in large quantities, measure them into wine, and use wine and other handicrafts to exchange food with other food-rich regions, such as Egypt.
It can be said that the land of Greece has been notoriously barren since ancient times.
Originally, the population of the Kingdom of Greece was sparsely populated. To make matters worse, this land is not yet suitable for farming and has a great ideal.
It is too difficult.
If you steadfastly become a small country and pursue development with peace of mind, Greece may not have no chance to realize its ideals.
This is the opportunity given by the background of the times, and that is the decline of the Ottoman Turk Empire.
At the end of the 19th century, the Ottoman Turkey was known as the sick man of West Asia, and it reflected each other in the Eastern Manchu and Qing Dynasty.
It's just that the fever of fanatical nationalism will not go away, in the hearts of the Greeks, like a cat's paw, scratching the hearts of the Greeks.
Constantine took a deep breath and wanted to sit firmly on the throne of Greece and develop Greece. This difficulty is really the beginning of hell level!