Why Doesn't Greece Have a King? | The Rise of the Hellenic Republic
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2020
- Why doesn't Greece have a king? In 1832 Greece gained independence from the Turks with Otto I as its king, but over the course of 140 turbulent years, Greece saw monarchy come and go on more than occasion as no less than three republics ruled the country. All as Greece fought with its neighbors to bring the entire Greek-speaking world (or at least a large chunk of it!) under their control.
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I hate to be literal but from what I see the gods and goddesses would hafta announce anything to anyone properly to anyone that's facts , otherwise that's stealing and no one could prove who started this tradition, so you can't say I'm crazy or lunacy for that matter but its facts , who gave them or anyone superiority over the world , you gotta ask questions because it becomes a serious offense to the public, its deeper than you know, and in order to prove them being a myth we need proof of that as well , I think a real blood test from all humans who have families dating back to 1bc or so should be exposed, but you can't because royalty is not announced by the gods and goddesses so its just conquer and take over , now if one god just one of them were to be walking the earth then that's the real royalty and would hafta announce anything to them properly ,just saying , otherwise you really can't claim anything, and if so how and who gave it to them because that's not he or she's place either unless you have created everything then it's yours
nice video keep up! How about a video about Greece in ww2?
In early the period the Greeks had no kings. The Greeks mean university academicians. They settle here only after their country has surrendered to the enemy. Their country is Hela-bima. The word Hela-bima means the land of the Hella people or Hellenic. it is Heladiva to outsiders that means the island of the Hellas. one of their languages is Hela-basa and the other is called Ceynhele but not the present day Sinhala. These two languages are opposite to each other and one can be taken as a positive language and the other as a negative language. Academics are called Giri In the Hela language while the area where the universities are located is known as Giri Rata or Giri-k, (pronounce as Girika) where "k" means land. Even though a small island, Heladiva was the Head state of the Lion Empire which has ruled the entire world twice before. At a time when the power of the empire had waned (about 540 BC), there was another clash with the enemies in Hela-bima. For the greater protection of the academics and the scientific secrets, they migrated to the land near the Mediterranean Sea, which was a vassal kingdom during the previous empire. This migration is described clearly in the Mahawansa the great chronicle of Sri Lanka covering continuous period for over 3000 years.
They named the newly migrated land Girik (sound as Giri-ka) meaning the land of academics and later evolved it as Greek and Greece. At that time Heladiva was ruled under three main divisions called Ruhuna, Pihiti and Maya on a special scientific base. Accordingly, Greece was also divided into three parts, Dorians Aeolians and Ionians. However, they do not appoint a king because it is a colony of Heladiva and they accepted the Emporer of the lion-empire (or King of lion people in Hela-diva) as their king. Helabima was formerly known as Lanka that means heaven. After being captured by enemies the country was destroyed and turned upside down hence the name Hela or Hella giving the meaning Hell. It is Tambapanni in Pali and Tabrobane in Greek; one of the famous words among ancient Grecians. This is how Sri Lankan words Greek and Hela or Hellenic came into the western dictionaries.
@@cooltanksl2091 I am Greek (Hellinas), and I am really confused about what you say. In my opinion Hellinas is he/she who has achieved the Hellenic Education, A healthy body and a healthy mind. Just Greeks are they who live in the country called Greece (where live people from many other countries) other characteristics of Hellines are hospitality, some of us immigrate where they can develop their skills(Australia, Canada, U.S.A., Germany and Belgium the last few decades), but they who go to other countries work much harder than those who stay here because they are students, old people who returned to their home villages or even because they are lasy adults who don't want to find a job here because of the small payment and they don't want to go to other countries where they can find immediately a job because they should work harder as foreigners.
The question might me that if you leave in UK or Spain but for the rest of the world it's more likely, Why does Britain has a king or queen or immortal Queen or whatever
"In 1920 King Alexander was attacked by a monkey and later died of sepsis". Continues video without skipping a beat.
It’s pretty self explanatory!
Yes. I thought that was a little funny too.
“On October 2, Alexander was walking with his dog, Fritz, a German Shepherd, when the dog became embroiled in a fight with a pet Barbary monkey kept on the grounds of the royal estate. Alexander attempted to separate the two, but was bitten by a second monkey in multiple places. These wounds would soon become infected, and on October 25, Alexander died of sepsis at the age of 27.”
The key word here is antibiotics 😂
@@djquinn11 King Kurt Cobain
First king after the OTTOMAN rule was a MAN called OTTO 🤔 Got to appreciate the irony 😄
Ah, I'm glad someone finally commented this!
We had another "King Otto"...Rehhagel,2004...
@@user-fu3ir9hr3k hmm
@@athanasiostsimas7281 τι κύριε Παπαδόπουλε;
@Jordan & Jordan Yes and?
VenizElos - the accent is on third syllable.
Veni-dzelos
Accent that dz
@@Skabanis no. Βενιζέλος. No dz.
@@Skabanis no "d" on the name either written or pronounced...
@@Skabanis Βενιζέλος όχι Βενιτζέλος
What ended the Greek Royals? Well... they weren't Greek first of all...
😂😂😂 i chuckled when i heard this too
well the first of them were greeks in soul
They have Greek Byzantine blood so jokes on you
George the first had greek lineage from Alexios Komnenos though he never cared to learn of this...
The English kings aren't English either! That's just how the late monarchies went.
Imagine a world where Ataturk didn't exist and greece got Constantinople back
Definitely makes for a good alternate history scenario!
They wouldn't because Constantinople was controlled by the British
The good ending
@@dkgamers1385 correct
Ataturk or no Ataturk King Constantine I lied about his electoral promises to make peace, he led the tired army deep inside Anatolia where it got worn down by the Turks in an attrition warfare. What should have happened is that the Liberals build trenches around the city of Smyrna and utilize the navy to control the Dardanelles.
I think the right question is why did Greece have a king in the first place? The Greek revolutionaries did not revolt against the Ottomans just to see a random Bavarian royalist become the ruler of their freed lands. Although the answer to the question becomes more obvious if you study the events as they unfolded after the breakout of the revolt, it is worth mentioning.
Great video btw!
That's because of a variety of things.
First of all the new Greek state was unstable and had civil wars all the time even during the Revolution. As long as Kapodistrias was around that was mitigated. After he died, a strong leadership became a necessity once again. Then we also have the issue of the Holy League in the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna. In essence, Europe had just seen democracy for the first time in modern history (and by democracy, I mean Napoleon) and its leaders didn't really like this. So, they'd never allow for, let alone support, a new country that aspired to become Napoleon version two. The Greek leaders tried time and time again to prove that their cause was not a social one but that of national liberation against foreign conquest. Now, there are people in Greece that dispute how much this was truly the case, but indeed the leaders of Greece would all prefer to be run by an absolute monarch (as was the norm at the time) than being run by a FOREIGN absolute monarch. And of course, the third point is control. Greece in its revolution became a debt colony. It should have defaulted on its independence debts a long time ago, but in 1913, just when it gained the power to do so, king George the 1st, the king that actually liked Greece and assimilated to Greek culture, was shot dead by a socialist in Thessaloniki, the city having just been liberated by the Greeks in the Balkan wars. If king George hadn't been shot, it's very likely that he would have either joined the allies early on, winning Cyprus, Thrace and some Anatolian coast lands in the process or he would have defaulted on the unfair debts while the war was still raging on. In any case, his death created social unrest and a dysfunctional state run by his son, regent Constantine, and the Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. Venizelos was a diplomatic genius and could have smooth talked even Britain into more favorable deals for Greece. His stance was to join the allies the earliest possible, so that the army could get in Anatolia while still at war. Thus, the occupation would be justified even to the Turks. Unfortunately he didn't have the military skills too. Constantine, although not the best, was all that Greece had when it came to good generals at that point. The national schism was effectively a civil war and hindered Greek progress. When Constantine was ousted to Italy, his son Alexander became king of Greece, but he was young, naive and very controlable. All power was in the hands of Venizelos. Then Alexander was bit by a monkey and died and so Constantine returned and assumed leadership and Venizelos left and Constantine did a mess in Asia Minor and yeah.
Butterfly effect at its highest. From that point on, the royals were seen as garbage in the eyes of the Greek public. Had they succeeded in Asia Minor, they'd probably be like in Britain now. But you can see that a random assassination and a monkey bite can change the course of history. If neither had happened, it's very likely that Greece would have joined the allies united and wouldn't have got beaten. Also, it was very odd to the Greeks that even though our allies were Britain and France and our enemies Bulgaria and Turkey, we had to switch sides because the king had a German wife.
Mainly bc monarchies were all the rage at the time. Lol. They probably thought it would bring stability & support from European nations.
Greece owed a lot of debt to the European powers so they forced a monarchy to ensure the payment of those debts as well as to control Greece which at the time was an extremely important strategic point.
Basically, blackmail. At the time of our independence we were heavily indebted and after the death of Kapodistrias, a puppet had to be established in order to have us under control.
Αμα δεν ηταν αυτός θα ηταν καποιος αλλος ασε που μια χαρά ηταν θα μπορουσε να ταν και χειρότερος
To make things really simple what ended the Greek royal family was their continuous involvement with internal politics.
@Amy Paps
They sent away leftists to another country??!
That's actually not a bad idea
@Amy Paps
It is cruel to separate mothers from children. They should have sent both the radical parents and their children together, to make Greece a better place
@@jonathanrotem251 I do not agree with communism either. The kings were backed by western countries and communists by soviet union. Partially i agree it was good they were not with communists. King was not stopped becauee of that though. Was stopped after dictatorship by party that was not leftist.
@@kraftiekhunt251
Exactly
@Amy Paps Actually you remember things inversely. The babies you talk about were already orphaned children of communists (sometimes also of victims of communists) who were killed during the civil war, a civil war that communists started in the first place. They had to either be put in an orphanage or to be given to adoptive families. It was indeed a shame that the Greek state did not raise these kids in orphanages and had to literally send them in adoptive families in USA, sometimes Greek but often foreign ones. A tragedy. The reality is however that it was the communists who did not just take orphans but literally abducted children from their families and sent them to Yugoslavia and Albania where they were meant to be raised "communist-style" in big communes and trained as future communist soldiers to be sent back to Greece for a next round of civil war. That was the hugest crime.
Greece didn't loose the east thrace. They volunteer give to Turkey as peace agreement so Turkey won't have any claims on Greek islands,(something that Turkey does keep the agreements by claiming the islands this days).
The agreement was that East Thrace will not see any troops from either side while they were negotiating in France. While Greece kept the agreement, Kemal placed troops and captured the area.
@@innosanto He actually did so at the invitation of the British. There was no bridge back then and Kemal required a navy to do that turkish jump back to Europe. But Kemal did not have any navy to do so. It was the British who enabled him so and it was the British who threatened the Greeks with "severe repercussions"(i.e. a British war against Greece!!!) if the Greek army retaliated. For the record, had the British remained out of this and had the Greeks counter-attacked, Turks would had not been able to recapture Constantinople. All in all the fate of Eastern Thrace and Constantinople was decided in France, where western European diplomats were talking.
@@erfanmoshtagh Then if there was not US and Soviet Union, Britain would now speak German.***
That you say is a generalization with no value. Things are always more complicated than black and white. Every country's history is important to their people and i think all citizens of any country will agree.
***: obviously i don't believe such thing, i don't like worldviews like this.
@@erfanmoshtagh I was referring to the "overrated" and "made up". And of course that "without Britain they would be no Greece". I just sound it disrespectful, thats all. Greece's geopolitical position in the map is a thing. Great powers of the time didn't want Turkey/Ottomans on European soil, and after the war the didn't want more communistic countries/soviet influence in the area.
Your second comment, i don't have delusions. If Hitler didn't do the "mistake" to attack Soviet union, Stalin would never endered the war. After all after the war, he didn't "liberate" the countries the red army passed, he took them as puppets and created the iron curtain. Same as US and the Pearl Harbor.
I don't really think we disagree or something, as i said, it was the "tone" of the comment, which of course i may interpreted wrong.
@@erfanmoshtagh Are you even reading the comments? It was an "example". I used that phrase with the *** at the end, as an example of "don't do it". You "hang" on it and ... actually, you made exactly my point, repeatedly. So if you don't like "absolutes", don't use them yourself.
Something important not mentioned is that Greece started out as a democratic Republic (as per its first Constitution of 1821) NOT a kingdom, As a republic it was also one of the first countries to legally emancipate the Jews and outlaw slavery (also since its founding) and later though a kingdom one of the first to establish universal male suffrage (1844, but women only a century later)
Belgium also started off as a democratic Republic, yet it kept its Monarchy to this very day
@@outerspace7391 yikes soo what does it say about Greece then ?
@@obibraxton2232 considering that both countries gained independence the same year, probably means that Greece was more politically unstable than Belgium, but I guess that was a fact regardless and can be proven with way too many better arguments
no, Greece as an independent state has never been a republic before being a kingdom
@@snowman9452 google first hellenic republic
The last referendum was less than fair. The exiled king, Constantine, was not allowed to come to Greece and campagn. It was a very unbalanced referendum.
Great review! A few things that weren't mentioned were the Greek homelands that were never liberated, in Greek called αλύτρωτες πατρίδες (unsalvaged fatherlands). Northern Epirus was liberated 3 times by Greece and had a Greek majority, although because of the Great Powers (Italy and Austria-Hungary at first, then only Italy and finally the USSR) it was never incorporated into Greece, because they believed that would contest their rule of the entrance to the Adriatic. Then the Macedonian Greeks of Monastiri, Geugeli and Strumnica, living in what was then Serbia close to the border with Greece (Collectively known as the Pelagonian Macedonian Greeks) became subject of a voluntary population exchange, and so did the Greeks of Eastern Rumelia (in modern Plovdiv and Burgas, then called Philippoupolis and Pyrgos) in Bulgaria. Finally, the Greeks of Pontus, Cappadocia and Ionia either fled to Greece or were mass slaughtered and the remaining ones were subject of a forced population exchange. 150.000 Greeks were allowed to stay in Constantinople, while regions like Eastern Thrace and Ionia went from majority Greek to non Greek at all/forced converts. Also, Pontus Greeks, who were a plurality (less than 50% but the biggest group) in areas close to the Caucasus (like Trabzon/Trapezous and Sinop/Sinōpe) fled to the Soviet Union.
One small detail : Greeks never say fatherland, they say motherland.
@@Irene-iu9sj actually the word Πατρίδα etymologically means Fatherland
@@Irene-iu9sj Πατρός + Γή (Αττικός τύπος Δή, Δωρικός τύπος Δά) = Πατρί-δά
I think that you mean the word Metropolis (Μητρόπολη), which means Mothercity and it was used for reference as the mother city of a Greek colony. For example the Metropolis of Taras in South Italy was Sparta in Greece.
@@Irene-iu9sj I'm pretty sure that Πατρίδα (patrida) is linked to Πατήρ/Πατέρας (pater/pateras) meaning father. And we use that interchangeably, ie we don't have an extra word related to mother-land but πατρίδα is the Greek equivalent of both English words
The main reason is that the Kings that Greece had was not really Greeks ... they was German and Danish...
The last Greek Emperor King died in the St Romanos Gate at 1453 defending Constantinople from the Ottoman hordes!
The second reason is that now days the Royal institution from many aspects is out of date...
💒👑Ζήτω ο Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων = Ρωμαίων Κωνσταντίνος ΙΓ΄ Φωκάς Τσιμισκής Διγενής Κομνηνός Άγγελος Λάσκαρης και η Βασίλισσα Άννα - Μαρία Α´ 👑💒
Το Ελληνικό Βασιλικό Αίμα της Ελληνικής Βασιλικής Οικογένειας
Ιωάννης Β' Κομνηνός
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Ανδρόνικος Κομνηνός
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Theodora Κομνηνή, Δούκισσα της Αυστρίας
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Leopold V, Duke of Austria
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Leopold VI, Duke of Austria
&
Theodora Angelina
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Agnes of Austria
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Jutta of Saxony
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Sophia of Denmark
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Ingeborg of Sweden
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Gerhard IV, Count of Holstein-Plön
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Ingeborg of Brunswick
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Christian V, Count of Oldenburg
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Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg
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Christian I of Denmark
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Frederick I of Denmark
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Christian III of Denmark
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Frederick II of Denmark
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Christian IV of Denmark
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Frederick III of Denmark
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Christian V of Denmark
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Frederick IV of Denmark
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Christian VI of Denmark
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Frederick V of Denmark
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Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
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Princess Charlotte of Denmark
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Louise of Hesse-Kassel
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Γεώργιος Α´ Βασιλεύς των Ελλήνων = Ρωμαίων….
The Palaiologos were gone after 1453
@@mafiosomemer3730 they had many descendants l
και ειναι πιο ελληνιδα η σακελαροπουλου απο τον κωνσταντινο;
Idiot, the last Royal Greek blood fled to Corsica ( Komninos ). Turks had a habit massacring every last one of Royal blood even if it meant children. We took permission by the Genovesse. The Italians for obvious reasons didn't want all the Greeks gathered at one place in Italy. But Greeks didn't want to separate either. So the compromise was found, Corsica. There he changed his name to Kalomeris and in Italy translated to Buonapartes ( does this name remind you something? Yes, father of Napoleon while his mother was native Corsican ). The last acting Autocrat indeed, fought and died in Constantinople ( Constantine Palaiologos ).
We basically have a King without a crown. Just check the ruling party, it goes from father to son and so on 😂
ΕΤΣΙ.
@@114BW Γιουβέτσι. Διαψεύστε με αν μπορείτε, αλλά κάθε φορά που γίνονταν εκλογές για την ανάδειξη ηγέτη κόμματος, ο ΙΔΙΟΣ ο ελληνικός λαός επέλεγε για αρχηγό τον εκάστοτε πολιτικό. Πχ., στην περίπτωση Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη, το 2017 η κομματική βάση, οι ψηφοφόροι, προτίμησαν τον Κυριάκο παρά τους συνυποψήφιους Άδωνι Γεωργιάδη, Τζιτζικώστα και Μεϊμαράκη. Αφήστε την κλάψα λοιπόν και κοιτάχτε την αλήθεια κατάματα. Κάποτε ο λαός προτίμησε ακόμα και το Γιωργάκη Παπανδρέου, ένα λειψό στο μυαλό ανδρείκελο, από τον Ευάγγελο Βενιζέλο, έναν έγκριτο νομικό με λαμπρές σπουδές και ειδικές συνταγματικές γνώσεις. Με εξαίρεση τον Κώστα Σημίτη, όλοι οι νεότεροι πρωθυπουργοί ήταν από τζάκια. Αυτό δεν έχει σχέση με το θεσμό της κληρονομικής Μοναρχίας (ήμαρτον!), αλλά μάλλον είναι κατάλοιπο της Οθωμανικής διακυβέρνησης, ή και της Βυζαντινής γιατί όχι, όπου τα τοπικά "τζάκια" επηρέαζαν συνολικά την ευρύτερη πολιτική. Πείτε το αριστοκρατία, οικογενειοκρατία, αλλά είναι βλακώδες να το πείτε "άτυπη Βασιλεία". Ανοίξτε κανά λεξικό πρώτα.
@@user-wd8io5ej2k ΚΟΚΟΡΕΤΣΙ .ΕΑΝ ΕΣΕΝΑ ΣΟΥ ΑΡΕΣΟΥΝ ΤΑ ΤΖΑΚΙΑ (ΚΑΤΑΛΟΙΠΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΩΜΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΟΠΩΣ ΛΕΣ ) ΕΜΕΝΑ ΔΕΝ ΜΟΥ ΑΡΕΣΟΥΝ . ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΔΕΝ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ? Η ΜΗΠΩΣ ΟΧΙ . ΚΑΙ ΕΠΕΙΔΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΑ ΣΟΥ ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΑΙΝΕΙ Ο ΚΑΘΕΝΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΣΟΥ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΗΣΗ Η ΟΠΟΙΑ ΝΑΙ ΜΕΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ ,ΑΛΛΑ ΟΧΙ ΚΑΙ ΥΠΟΧΡΕΩΤΙΚΗ ΓΙΑ ΑΛΛΟΥΣ , ΔΕΝ ΕΧΕΙ ΚΑΝΕΝΑ ΑΠΟΛΥΤΩΣ ΝΟΗΜΑ ΝΑ ΣΥΝΕΧΙΣΟΥΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΚΟΥΒΕΝΤΑ .ΔΕΝ ΘΑ ΣΟΥ ΑΛΛΑΞΩ ΜΥΑΛΑ ,ΑΛΛΑ ΟΥΤΕ ΕΣΥ ΕΜΕΝΑ.
Υ.Γ ΤΑ ΛΕΞΙΚΑ ΤΑ ΑΝΟΙΞΑΜΕ ΟΤΑΝ ΕΠΡΕΠΕ. OVER AND OUT.
@@user-wd8io5ej2k Πολύ εύστοχο σχόλιο. Υπήρχε μια φορά που οι Έλληνες δεν επιλέξανε τζάκι αλλά κάνανε πάλι την λάθος επιλογή. Στις εκλογές της προεδρίας της ΝΔ μεταξύ Μπακογιάννη κρίμα
@@akikos. Τζακια ξε-τζακια....η Ελλαδα ειναι ενα γελοιο προτεκτορατο και δεν εχει σημασια ποιος κυβερνα.Ειναι απολυτα ελεγχομενη απο ανθρωπους και χωρες που σε εχουν μονο για εκμεταλλευση.Το city του Λονδινου αποφασισε καποτε οτι θα εισαι μια Χαβαϊ της Ευρωπης και αυτο εισαι 200 χρονια μετα.Οσες φορες προσπαθησες εστω και σαν προτεκτορατο να φτιαξεις βαρια βιομηχανια δε σε αφησανε.Πιο ευκολο ειναι να φτιαξουν οι Αλβανοι παραδειγμα μια αυτοκινητοβιομηχανια παρα ο Ελληνας της φαπας.Οι πλανηταρχες ειναι Αγγλοι Γερμανοι Εβραιοι...και δε σε γουσταρουν καθολου.Και για οσο κυβερνανε αυτοι τον πλανητη ασπρη μερα δε θα δεις.
Imagine being a king and still going down in history as the king who died after a monkey bit him :D
That poor chap (king Alexander)was the only one of the royals who dared marry a Greek woman instead of an imported princess. Though it is rumored that the very young at the time Constantine the 2nd, also wanted very much to marry a very popular Greek cinema actress, with whom he had a love affair. Only his mom, the queen Frederika, objected strenuously to such marriage and the heir to the throne backed off. I guess we will never find out with certainty if the rumor was true.
Surprisingly good video on a rather complicated issue. Greetings from Greece 👍
A person who really deserves mention in this brief history is the last king's mother, queen Frederica of Hanover. She didn't just consult her husband, she was actively involved in the decision making. People used to say "you don't want to go against the palace", meaning the King/Queen complex and, in truth Frederica. And those politicians who did try to go against her were summarily dismissed. She even put her son "in his place" when he tried to express opinions of his own and slaped him at least once in front of non royal family witnesses when he refused to do as she said.
what since when did that happen
@@isaacmaskey4274 the best known such case, of the queen mother slapping her son, was when then-prince Constantine fell in love with Greece's most popular actress, Aliki Vougiouklaki and had an affair with her. Emboldened by the example of prince Rainier of Monaco marrying Grace Kelly, he told his mother that he wanted to marry Vougiouklaki and make her queen of the Greek people. His mother said "you can have either the throne OR her, not both" and he replied "THEN HER". Queen Frederica, furious at being challenged by her own blood, slapped him in front of courtiers and some government members, that is how the story got to be known. In later years, supporters of the royal family would verify this story with pride, as an example of how strictly the royal house hold was run and it's dignity protected. The funny/sad part is that, if he had married Aliki Vougiouklaki, he might still be king today. The Greeks were obsessed with her and if abolishing the monarchy meant loosing her, they would have voted for the king to stay.
@@anastasiosgkotzamanis5277 dude what ru talking about we all no the king was a perfect couple with princess anna marie of denmark then queen of greece after that this is the first time i have heard of his afair you do no not to belive everything you read on the internet whats next i bet your gonna tell me the king does not love anna marie and im gonna tell you thats rubbish because they have been Together a long time just like prince phlip and queen elizaabeth because king constine has been through alott with queen anna marie the curret titular queen of greece we all love and respect them cause all i hear is hes not greek i mean people need to grow up he won a gold medal for greece the first in like 150 yrs and anna marie shes just lovely despite how greece have treated them they still react to the greeks with love people always talk about how amazing queen elizabeth is well whos even better queen anna marie im a monarchist so i support the royal family i dont no what you think of them but besides marie chantel most of the royal family are done to earth lovely people
@@isaacmaskey4274 As far as the love affair was concerned, they appeared together in public a couple of times. That is how the Greek people got wind of it. Then they split up. It wasn't just the reaction of the royal family that led there-by all accounts Vougiouklaki was a very strong willed woman and refused to play the meek Greek wife, even to the king. She married only once and that marriage proved that she would play second fiddle to none. So after the affair, then prince Constantine must have wised up that it takes more than movie industry glamour to make a good wife, especially for a king. So there you have it, a short affair with a Greek movie star when he was very young. Then he got married and became a family man. I have no criticism about former king Constantine when it comes to his wife and his family because i don't know anything about them, may they enjoy good health and long life.
dude her names not queen fedrica of hanover she was born princess fedrica of hanover then she became queen fedrica of greece
Amazing video. Thanks for that. I think Greek genocide (in Pontos and Minor Asia) during this period is an important subject that would be mentioned.
@@9999HT who said it wasn't my guy?
If so why shouldn't he have mentioned the genocides of Turks, Albanians and Bulgarians inside of Greece. After all that is an internal affair of Greece
@@blueatillipops2634 because that never happened, and even if in some occasions there were mass killings of Bulgarians, it's absolutely disrespectful to claim that Albanians were victims too, Albanians had everything the way they wished and now we're victimizing them?
Ohh yeah tripoliçe
@@ufuker5754 Let's not mention massacres that happent in the war of independence ok ? I mean the ottomans have a way worst criminal record during that war ( for example massacre of chios ) .
Some corrections about Otto. He actually really loved Greece, and there are some paintings and photos showing him wearing traditional Greek clothes of the time. From what I know he actually had interest in rulling Greece. Although that probably didn't show because as you said, he kinda sacked at his job and the fact that neither he nor his wife Amalia were Orthodox didn't help.
Another reason though he was exiled, and this is a big one, was that he most likely couldn't have children. It isn't known if there was lack of effort or some short of medical issue, but even if he saw his reign till the end, we would probably have to elect a new king anyway.
Do a blood test and make sure you have proper announcement from the gods and goddesses to be royalty to anything, just saying facts literal facts , the creators of the planet should do that not humans, you can't prove that can you lol
Otto loved Greece, he was buried in traditional greek costume, he designed in secret an alliance and attack on the Ottomans alongside Italy.Britain learned about it and orchestrated to depose him, and succeed and upon the coronation of Georgios I prince of Denmark as King of Greece, the greek state acquired the Ionian Island by signing not to attempt anu hostile actions against Ottoman territory, a sign of pure proof of who was behind the deposition of King Otto.Otto loved greece as it was, he understood what the rest in Europe could not, he saw why this people was so resilient and he realised the words of Napoleon "for a moment I saw in front of me the empire of Alexander" and upon the greek uprising "the greeks are great people waiting for a great leader to lead them to glory", both for Otto were options, he had the greek dispora ready to assist him in every corner of the east, the very Persia had recently lost the safavid dynasty that was made by a turkish ruler and a greek princess, and that was a good propaganda tool too considering the oil deposits of the state and it's goverment instability.
Amalia couldn’t bare a child ... apparently she had a condition (genitals)
@@sto_karfi842 Until today Italians and all the rest are very close to turks Italians attack greece don't forget they are all guilty
Great to have you back. Love getting the back story and timeline of these events... I didn't realize how recent this history it is.
Not a single Greek king was ethnically Greek.
Sadly...
and you are
Wel
They have Greek byzantine blood
And king constantine 2 is born and raised Greek
You mean after the revolution*
Belgium had german king as well
Quite accurate. Although the following has to be noted: despite all this political turmoil, Greece managed to have elections since 1843. That's quite a long ago. The reason why there have been so many governments throughout our modern history is because the elections actually worked. We always were kicking out whoever was deemed incompetent.
For Venizelos, he changed the country dramatically since the first day, quite literally. In his first 6 months in office he passed over 330 new laws, covering every facet. For the economy, well, it wasn't that poor and underdeveloped, it was actually quite developed to most of Europe, but Venizelos slingshoted it, and as a result, even during the political turmoil of 1922-1936, Greece was developing consistently, up until WWII broke out.
For the constitutions, yes, we still had a king, but the texts themselves were quite revolutionary in context. In 1844 we were the first country globally to permanently have universal male suffrage. And in 1864, the constitution that was drawn secured all liberal values, like parliamentarism, people's rule, absolute freedom of speech and the press and rule of law. Quite progressive for a country that was liberated from the Turks 34 years ago at that time.
Greece has a constitution since around 1824.
Now, in Greece, the former royal family are not popular any more. But, yes, there was a time, till 1915, that the Greek royal family was overwelmingly popular among Greeks in Greece and abroad.
I love Greece. Will you please pressure your politicians into getting Constantinople back so you can have your spiritual revival of the eastern Roman Empire and a new capital in a place old in hearts? I mean you obviously wouldn't reestablish a monarchy in modern times, but maybe it'll inspire a Byzantine themed new country flag. God that'd be so cool. God bless Constantine the 11th and Greece.
@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 that would be suicide for the Greek Republic and trying to reclaim a city due to "historical claim" would result in Greece losing any and all trade and military allies and possibly see Turkey receive military support from these allies as a "fuck you" to a country trying to play empire by invading a sovereign nation with such a poor excuse of a causus belli.
@@theoneandonlydetraebean8286 not all people in Greece love byzantine culture imperors and other bullshit
Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos this mason and traitor of Christian Greece and and anything Greek was fully responsible for the Asia Minor campaign catastrophe together with his bossom buddy Kemal Ataturk, the very man who together with Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos was responsible for the killing of hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Christians..Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos nominated Kemal Ataturk for the prestigious Nobel peace prize !!!! Only a Turk,or a Greek traitor would do such a thing. This Kstharma back in 1916 asked the French to bombard Athens, and what's more they did ! If wasn't for loyal to King soldiers, Athens would be well and truly stuffed, even fucked . This anti Greek element known as Ben Zelon a.k.a. Elefterios Veniselos ,in 1919 sent Greek soldiers to Ukraine to fight the Russians . No wander Russia refused to give a helping hand to 🇬🇷 during the Asia Minor campaign. Check out your history books : Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos, this Greek? Individual was sentenced to death by a Greek court of law.,.his co Jewish wife paid out of her own purse ? hundreds upon hundreds of military officers to support her rotten to the core husband . He did all he could to please his masters and controllers France, Britain, USA . why do you think Greece's biggest airport is named after this filth? Named under the directions of the great powers ,he served as a good puppet on the string . While out glorious King Constantine XII (I) was with his army in Asia Minor and very sick, freemason Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos done all he could, a bit more undermining the Greek military campaign . King Constantine XII (I) wasn't liked by the British and French and USA because he loved his country . Read history books and learn the truth and the truth will set you free, of the bill shit you grew up with. If you want more proof of this , check out what the French Navy under the directions of Ben Zelon also known as Elefterios Veniselos done to Greeks asking for help, in the Port of Smysna Efialtis was the first anathema , Veniselos the second .
@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008
The greek army is half as big as the turkish one so it can mostly hold (in case of the turks invading the islands the army will try to rush through the plains of thrace to constantinople and hold the strait)
The last Greek king died in 1453!
Thank god he did
@@nomanahmadrao8469 good for you, you would be still running
@@nomanahmadrao8469 yep otherwise there would be no 🦃
and his was a christian turk
He is not greek he is danish.
You deserve many more subs than what you have currently!
King George I was Prince Philip's (Duke of Edinburgh) grandfather.
Philip died today. RIP
@@brandonbonett6416 RIP
Prince Philip was actually in line to become King of the Hellenes until Constantine was born in 1940. His mother tried to lure him back to Greece to prepare for kingship, but his uncle Louis Mountbatten persuaded Philip to stay in the British Royal Navy. Then he married Princess Elizabeth- that was the end of any life in Greece.
Another informative video Good to have you back
Thanks!
as a greek, you did a very good job. spot on every sentence. you never "threw" random informations perimeterically.
excellent job. +1 sub
"Informations" Φιλαράκι σ'αγαπάω
@@indrast5203 hahahah i try my best. in greek "informations" is a word countable and exists.
@@maximilianrhinestone1024 Yep . Το καλό είναι πως προσθέτει μια γοητεία .
Θυμάμαι στο φροντιστήριο που κάναμε αυτό το λάθος όταν μαθαίναμε Αγγλικά .
You mean as an Orthodox Turk ?
@supermavro6072 Greeks inhabit the general area of modern day greece and turkey way longer than turks arive from deep Kazakhstan and Mongolia expeditions and nomadic times. Open a history book bagooba
Great video
Greeks never took well the foreign kings the great powers imposed on them.The only monarch the Greeks would recognize is the emperor of Constantinople.For obvious reasons,this option is off the table.
Should just restore the head of state is a culture figure might well be a king
@gger οι καιροί αλλάζουν. Δεν μπορούμε να είμαστε κολλημένοι στο παρελθόν, σε πρακτικές που απέτυχαν. Όμως, η Ιστορία έχει δείξει πως όλα είναι πιθανά. Ήδη η δημοκρατία είναι πρακτικά ανύπαρκτη, περιορισμένη σε μικροελευθερίες όπως αυτή η συζήτηση.
10th January 2023 : His Majesty King Constantine II has passed away at the age of 82 making his son King Paul II
His son is NOT a king and he will NEVER become Paul the second, unless hell freezes first
@@leykimayri cry elsewhere.
@@himtheemperoradityaofindia I’m not crying, I’m just mentioning FACTS that you ignore. His son was NOT crowned which means that he is NOT a king. And he will be named Paul the 2nd ONLY if he gets crowned as the king of Greeks. So again, go educate yourself about how things work instead of posting stupidities online which only make you even more ridiculous than you already are
Good job sir!
Good work
Just so you know, he's called
Ve-ni-zé-los
stress the e (pronounced like the 1st e in edge)
Typical British mispronouncing everything
@@sakisgr1396 Americans too
@@chrisradical2046 Not Sorry.
@@sakisgr1396 yeah 😅
This channel deserves 1m sub's!
Stable video 👍
Nice video and nice effort! There's a small error though. Historically, the 4th of August regime wasn't applied by the king. In 1936's elections, a government couldn't be formed by the country's 2 biggest parties, and they didn't want the third party to form a government because it was communist. Then, all the parties of the Parliament decided that the party led by Metaxas, (which had less than 4% of the total votes), should lead the country. It is true that this was accepted by the King, but he wasn't the one to apply it.
fui fact: when russia/uk/france were trying to see who could be the first king of greece, looking the lineage dynasty all the way back to Constantine the Paleologos, last Byzantine empire when Constantinople fall in 1453, they asked Prince Pedro of Portugal, when he and the royal family of portugal where living in Brazil escaping from Napoleon in 1808. They asked him if he wanted to be the king of greece which he declined. One year after 25/03/1821 when the greeks initiated their revolt against the othoman turks, Pedro declarei Brazil independence in the margins of the Ipirang river in São Paulo (07/09/1822), becaming Dom Pedro I Empreror of Brazil.
There were actually imperial Byzantine families surviving in Mani who were recognised by the Maniots as their nominal kings (real power was held by the clan leaders).
Also Dimitrios Ypsilantis was a candidate for the Greek throne but he barely received any votes. Greece wouldn’t have a king anyway if Kapodistrias didn’t die and most likely if they did, he would be Orthodox
Initially Greece had Greek governor, not kingdom of Greece. Greece had a Governor placed by the Greek National Assembly.
He was assassinated ( probably with support from abroad) and then king was brought from abroad.
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
Interesting video.
Nice Video
There is soo much history behide all of it. Right now you are only scratching the surface of the history
The last Greek king died in Constantinople in 1453
Thanks!
Amazing channel!
Wow, that's incredibly generous! Glad you enjoyed!
The Ionian islands were granted to Greece as a means of the British Empire to make the new king imposed by them more popular(serving their purposes of course)...so it was more of an investment!
Very good video! Note: Britain did not voluntarily decolonize Ionian Islands! Ιt was a transaction: Ionian Islands = British influence in the politics of all of Greece through King George (who was an anglophile)! So it was not a gift at all I am sad to say!
Well he did insist on getting them if he was to accept, and his sister was married to the prince of Wales, and there wasn't that many to choose from for the Greeks, because they wanted someone of a prominent enough dynasty, with the right connections, and yet it mustn't come with many strings attached, hence ruling out british, german, austrian and russian lines en masse, swedens and berlgiums wasn't good enough, spains and portugals came with their own problems...
Prince Phillip of Wales is the grandson of Otto's replacer (1845) King George :-)
Prince philip, Duke of Edinburgh. (RIP). His son is Charles, Prince of Wales
@@jonathanrotem251 Yeah you are right. Thanks.
And Greece remains a great power's pawn yet again...
We're nothing but a colony.
*Greek government. The majority doesn't like the government, regarldess of political party.
Delusional bullshit
In times like this, with much destructive force it is so import to pull strength from our culture. Europe has a long tradition of supporting their Kings and the Royal Families. They have so much to offer of their lands culture they know the history of their palaces. The Scandinavian countries model have so much to offer. The people love when they open up their weddings, their beautiful gardens, interesting exhibitions about their antiques and history. Greece you have always had your kings you kingdom, why do you not choose the Scandinavien Model with their openness. It is much more fun to have a King and Queen, the country will be way more happy and all your beautiful castle and parks will again have the "ROYAL TOUCH".
You forgot Crete. You say it became autonomous in 1897 then you show it in blue. Crete infact became Greek in 1908.
Congrats on over a 100000 views!
Thanks!
Do The End Of Yugoslavia
I may very well!
if it wasn't the PM Venizelos the Greeks wouldn't have captured the important port-city of Thessaloniki.
During the Greek offensive the Crown Prince wanted to move against the city of Monastir when the Bulgarian army was 2 days away from Thessaloniki. Then Venizelos intervened and sent him a short telegraph "Move against Thessaloniki right now". The prince refused and Venizelos had to speak with the King to make his son change his mind and capture Thessaloniki before the Bulgarian army enter the city.
The whole letter thing is not true, but it was propaganda of the time.
Pretty good job in consolidating 150 years of history. The most important thing not mentioned is the Greek Civil war after the second world war.
He mentioned the civil war
Great video. The monarchy in Greece failed miserably at gaining the people's support. Greece's strong kings didnt respect democracy, and weak kings failed to defend it
Bavarian king: comes to Greece
Greeks:
*We don't do that here*
He was king of greece, but never the king of the greeks, here is the difference ;)
Greece needs a new king that is ETHNICALLY GREEK to replace mitzotakis
Well made video as a Greek I approve
Maybe the Greek monarchy would have had more success if the royal family had actually been ethnically Greek.
@@bubblybubbles4023 σημασία έχουν τα πεπραγμένα όχι η καταγωγή
Oh it feels good to be the one praised for once!
Love from Greece take care everyone
What I find most interesting here is the entire divergence .. When Constantine fled again in 1922, the Wiki on Prince Phillip (the Queens Consort in the UK says) .. Philip's uncle and high commander of the Greek expeditionary force, King Constantine I, was blamed for the defeat and was forced to abdicate on 27 September 1922. The new military government arrested Prince Andrew (Phillips father), along with others. The commanding officer of the army, General Georgios Hatzianestis, and five senior politicians, were arrested, tried, and executed in the Trial of the Six. Prince Andrew's life was also believed to be in danger, and Princess Alice was under surveillance. Finally in December, a revolutionary court banished Prince Andrew from Greece, for life.[9] The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew's family, with Philip carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box.
Note that the army arrested and drove out of Greece Constantine, and his brother (Prince Andrew) and others .. and yet .. they kept the throne in place and placed George II on the throne as a puppet until it was abolished in 1924 .. only to have another military coup in 1935 bring him back. And then Phillip fought for the UK in the Navy (with distinction) while George ruled a exile goverment in London. Makes you wonder a bit how Phillip might have turned out if not for these events.
It’s a great shame. the monarchy should be restored. if you watch interview with him you can tell how much can king Constantine loves his country and if you ask the greek people many of them certainly have a great admiration for him.
Yea, no! Even if this wasn't façade he puts on for the general public good personal opinion dosen't translate well to good and stable country, leave alone competent politics.
It's always the exiled Monarchs which got kicked out by their own people that “hold their country the dearest”, only exept we speak about 5 years prior when those very same people ware still in reign that they tough on how to “civilise” their tasked country more like their native homeland and didn't give two cents about civil unrest, poverty, or instability.
@@peterdenov4898 firstly they do give two cents because the lack of those things keeps them on their throne and keeps their people happy and secondly wasn’t by the will of the people it was a military coup and only after the coup when the public perception of the royal family had been changed by the belated actions of the king did a referendum abolish it
@@thunderbolt1964 the thing about absolute monarchies is that you don't need the will of the people as the king alone is the whole country itself, especially around those times where peasants ware still counted as disposable and the red scare/communist uprisings took place, making the high class & military elite even more brutal and distrustful when it come to the general population.
Expecting a single person to be competent in all spheres regarding one country is not just unrealistic but entirely impossible.
A Monarch exists only as either political/media figure head persona for beauty, or political regulator (in general Balkan case it was the former), it's the royal court that does the magic by effectively pulling the strings of the whole country.
Unfortunately all royal courts here ware either none existent at best, or pathetic jokes at worst, leaving all high expectations directly on the shoulders second class German nobles that realistically speaking never had held any false hopes whatsoever for the noble life back home.
Pair impossible expectations for leader that exist only in hero fairytales like ”Prince Vladimir” to someone that's considered lost cause by his own family and you have a recipe for disaster. The situation is so bad that the people who still support them have to double down on their media persona traits as to avoid talking about their political records and achievements.
It is ironic that Otto was elected by the British and was a Catholic himself,
but at the last years of his reign he became Russian friendly and sympathetic to the Russian political Party
of the Greek Parliament. He loved Greece so much that he supported what the population wanted.
He died in exile, he asked to be buried with his Greek fustanella skirt, and his last words before dying
were prayers to God about Greece's good luck on the future. This German guy trully was a Greek in heart.
The least overused story about foreign installed German monarch ever: “He loved (X) so much that every single though he ever had was only about (X), and wanted to be buried in (X) land wearing (X) national clothing”.
2:45 - “ Subsequently, George I had a long and fairly prosperous...” moustache.
3rd of September 1943 was when they forced King Otto to sign the first Greek Constitution. I know as it is 150 years before I was born, on the date.
The last king was ready for a militiray coup in 1967 by the army generals that were loyal to him and of course with the permission of the USA. The colonels were faster though
The army generals didn't take permission from the USA when they did a coup at 1967. The coup was done in 21 of april because the greek agency of investigation warned the military that 60.000 armed communists wanted to overthrow democracy and make Greece a part of soviet union. The coup was planned by the military in 3 days...and if they hadn't act fast, the communists would have started a revolution by the end of april. Sure the military junta got tanks, aircraft etc by the USA because nobody was selling guns at the time. Soviets would obviously not sell guns to the junta so the only way for Greece to get equipment was from USA. G. Papadopoulos the head of the military junta refused at some point to the americans to build a base at Cyprus/Crete, because USA wanted to bomb the arab-conflict war...this is why he was overthrown later on and cyprus was split up. The fact that some people claim that the greek junta was controlled by the USA is a lie and nobody can provide clear evidence about that.
@@avgerinosx3135 60.000 armed communists i am laughing.During the whole 60's period there were essays from police stations all over Greece that things in the villages and the rural areas away from the urban centers were really calm. The communists were completely disorganised and unwilling to start an offensive to threaten the regime, and this is also the reason they were arrested in numbers during the coup,they had no intention of doing anything. The only reason that the coup was organised was to prevent Papandreou from taking the power again in the elections that were about to take place in May of 1967.There was no communist threat, even the majority of EDA supporters (the leftist party) supported Papandreou thats why their numbers had dropped dramatically in the elections of 1964. Papadopoulos and the whole military personnel of Greece was funded by the US, was trained by the US was even paid their salaries by the US , they were the keepers of their interests in Greece.Papandreou was an anticommunist but didnt want to be the puppet neither of queen Freideriki and the paramilitary that was orchestrating the political matters in Greece, nor the underdog of the Americans. Thats why the Iouliana happenned thats why they didnt want him to win the elections of 1967.Do you even believe that they would overthrow the goverment of a NATO member without the permission of the USA?OR had the Americans a different view wouldnt they interfere??The junta was American backed up and its a joke considering those traitors as patriots. Read some modern Greek history
@@MrAbagaz So little do you know about the communist action in Greece...The reds after failing to gain control at the late 40's, didn't give up even though they were outlawed. When you fight your enemy he will either surrender or fight until death. Generally organisations who have been banned are proved to be more extreme. Even the KPD in n@zi germany was heavily fighting the state. At the 60's Greece was in the middle of the cold war and communists were setting up a plan to take power once again. This is why the coup happened. Please read about the history of communist action and in Greece. And most importantly read about papadopoulos fall/replacement because then you will understand how he went against his so called "american buddies".
@@avgerinosx3135 dude, take your medications. Your brains are already boosting on a critical level.
@@spartanlion2819 Your muscles are boosting on a critical level.
It’s no wonder big phil saw the Greek throne as being worthless and went all in on cozying up to Lizzie in England. And boy did that gambit pay off for him
You forgot the PM Charilaos Trikoupis which he playerd an important role for the greek economy.
Here before 3K subs
Otto became an Orthodox when he went to Greece
Lol, I read about this when Prince Philip passed away and I was wondering why his title was "of Greece and Denmark". I was surprised to find out that Greece had a monarchy made of non-Greeks, married to non-Greeks. In all actuality, it was just another colonization scenario given that that monarchy was put in place by external powers. The fact that they didn't mix with the Greeks throughout multiple generations shows they had no intention of being truly Greek. Therefore, the title is a joke.
King Alexander (who died young after that fateful monkey bite) had married a Greek commoner, Aspasia Manou, something quite unacceptable for royals everywhere in those days. An another thing about royals of Greece marrying not Greeks: there wasn't such a thing as Greek aristocracy, so they had to look abroad for finding "suitable" husbands and wives.
mate, just about every royalty in europe was german or used to be. royalty and nobles didnt marry into the "population" of the country they ruled, they married other people of similar status because those people could give them shit they needed like for example an alliance, friendly relations whatever.them not marrying a greek aint special
@@georgeboubous8318
Well, there was aristocracy but they could not prove that they decended from ..blue bloods .
Yes and no. Actually all the royals of Europe, mixed as they are, have among others, distant Byzantine imperial ancestry as well, so the ''Greekness'' of the Greek royal dynasty cannot be ruled out. Also, apart from that unfortunate chap - king Alexander - who did marry a Greek lady of prominent social status, in spite of the reactions, it is rumored** that Constantine the 2nd, the last king, who lost his throne after the 1974 referendum, also wanted to marry a very popular Greek cinema actress (Aliki Vougiouklaki) with whom he had a commonly known affair. He was not king yet at the time, but his mom - Queen consort Frederika - objected strenuously to such marriage, so the heir to the throne backed off.
**The rumor is probably true.
7:43 r we just gonna glance over that lol
Thanks i have an exams on the history u mention throughout and i dont want to study
They were not royalist, in Greek civil war. They were the armed forces of the elected democracy of Greece
Now we really don't have a king... He died today !!! May his soul rest in peace.... Glory to our king , Constantine the second !!!
A little more than a minute in and I just can't continue further.
The way he says Venizelos hurts my ears
Other than that, great video
Greece has no king, Greece needs no king. - Boromir
rip the king
Rest in piss the king.
In fact at 1878,Greece dident participate in war officially but was Revolutioners in Thessaly who beat several times the Ottomans army ,and keep the lan d until 1881 ,who Greate powers diside to accept the Union of Thessaly and part of Epirus to Greece
This was interesting but kind of fought how Prince Filip was related to Greek and Danish throne.
Also it is used as a point by people that want the royalty back that the house of Glücksburg has ancestry from the komnenos dynasty of Byzantium
Yes
Indeed. No only that but King Constantine I liberated 70 per cent of Greece from the Turks and doubled its population. Basically set the continentintal borders as they are today.
Lest We Forget 🕯️
seriously? I am amazed!
@@franpizarroooo Constantine I also probably had byzantine ancestry from the side of his mother who was from the russian Romanov dynasty
Also, he had six fingers. Think about that!!!
Why on earth should Greece have a king?
A king a dictator would be better than thus circus now
Why not? Alexander was a king. Basil II was a king.
@@user-wd8io5ej2k The greek royal family was not greek, they were put there by the powers of the time. It's presence was detrimental to Greece. Anyway monarchy is irrelevant in our era. That was actually my point.
Mitsotakis is crap
i think you just saved me in the exams. We will know tomorrow XD
Mate why the fuck have you got only 2k subs? Like your animations are very good you need to have more subs
I don’t get why you don’t use the orthodox cross as their symbol? It would be easier to distinguish it from the Catholic/Protestant cross!
Those are vikings
Not greeks
6:20 Portugal was allied to France, Britain and Russia, not neutral. A small note, but the map is wrong. Venizelos' head covers it for some time, but there you go.
Greek Royals died (mostly ) at 29 May 1453. Those new German/Dutch were brought by they Great Powers during independence at 1830
You mean East Roman Royals right?
@@kryssioss Still Greeks bozo
@@ChronosHellas You would be beheaded during east roman time if you called yourself Greek ;)
The main problem Greeks have with their royal family- is that it is not Greek. A branch of the Danish royal house was imposed on the Greeks under pressure from the "Great Powers". Oddly enough, King Constantine can actually trace his descent through the remote female line from the Byzantine emperors- I think the Komnenos dynasty? But the royal family is ethnically Danish-German, and they married foreign brides, instead of taking Greek brides. Constantine should have stood his ground against the Colonels in 1967- when he went into exile, no one heard from him for several years, the Greeks felt he had abandoned them. I'm a royalist, but monarchy has gone out of fashion, maybe one day it will come back into fashion when people get tired of the idiot politicians who are running Europe now. I support elective monarchy like the one in Cambodia, not hereditary from father to son- what if the son/daughter is a lunatic/retarded, the king should be elected from a royal clan, with democratically elected government running day to day affairs.
They was killed in 1453 what lineage all the real royals was killed see the tsar and then the story of anastasia etc etc and then they found was only a polish all bloodlines are like this then you found children with mental desease to control a country or something like this better is people with capacities high education etc not monarchy
Constantine is kind of a sad, pathetic fellow. He forgot the number one rule of a king; be firm & decisive. I get he didn’t want bloodshed on his name but by doing nothing let the elected government overthrown.
thats the most fabricated lies i have ever heard you call someone pathetic because they miss there home or because they have had there life turned upside down by the dictatorship you seem very judgemental you guys wanna just the king for not being greek but it was the people that choice the danish prince to become the first king of greece you guys need to grow up king constine is a honarable man who was robbed of his home its in accurate to just say hes some random danish guy with a title he won a gold medal for greece and this is how they treat him rob him of his home kick him out of his country yea real fair how would you like if they did that to you
there was no elected goverment, parties failed to form government over and over. By the fear of Communism, Colonels took over.
@@isaacmaskey4274 yeah not to mention i dont think democracy in my country will work so the king needs to return
he was also young at the time , only 24 when he first proclaimed. Heck rarely you'll find in these days even a military liutenant or defense minister of tht age or in their 20s.
it wouldn't surprise me he would make a mistake like tht. that's why I feel like if Greece didn't have the rule where the monarch had to be commander in chief things would be a lot better for a monarchy.
@@forproject1666 That’s exactly why you have advisers.
Constantine in 1965 believed that another coup was going to happen to turn Greece into a baathist state, like Egypt-Syria.
The alleged leader of that coup was Andreas Papandreou the son of the prime minister George Papandreou.
So Constantine had the Papandreous sacked that led to a two year political crisis.
The Papandreous father and son always denied strenuously having such ideas but the suspicion was enough to keep the political crisis alive.
In April 1967 elections had to take place and the king was caught between Scylla and Charybde. A dictatorship or the suspect Papandreous back in power ?
In the end he allowed the colonels to take power. His plan was to claim innocence and after a few months kick them out.
What he wanted to do was replace the colonels with his loyal generals but they would call themselves "the government of national conciliation", not revolution or new 4th of August, or junta or anything like that.
He failed.
Then in exile in Rome he made another mistake.
He remained silent.
The old conservative leader Karamanlis in exile too in France was making proclamations against the junta every day from the Paris radio station (yes the conservatives were very much anti-junta despite their old differences with the Papandreous).
But the king remained silent.
So in 1974 the junta collapsed and Constantine Karamanlis became prime minister with the task to restore democracy, which he did.
But the relations between king Constantine and Constantine Karamanlis were not good. Since 1963 they were enemies. The conservative party of Greece were mostly royalists but Karamanlis was anti-royalist and he was very powerful as party leader.
So the final referendum in December 1974 is proclaimed. It did n't have to. All Karamanlis had to do was declare the juntist constitutions illegal - which they were - and return the country to the constitution of 1951 with the king as head of state. But he proclaimed a referendum and furthermore declared that his party should stay neutral. Induvidual members of the New Democracy party (i.e. the Karamanlis conservative party) could declare themselves for or against if they wanted to, but the party was neutral.
So who would vote for monarchy ? The Papandreou camp ? The communists ? King lost by a resounding 70% and royalty ended,
So as you can see king Constantine's history is a Greek tragedy.
Starts with the lefty Andreas Papandreou doing crazy things in 1965, ends with betrayal by the conservatives !
you are just like my history book
Haha, I hope that's a good thing.
@@LookBackHistory very good indeed
are we going o ignore the fact that a monkey killed Alexander?
Malaria killed Alexander.
Good video
Why beat around the bush? Just say that all the so called Greek Royals, were but pretenders, in that not one of them had or has any Greek blood in their veins. They intermarried within their own bloodlines many times over. Queen Frederika for instance had the Kaiser as her grandfather, had lines with Queen Victoria and brothers who were members of the SS. At wars end the "Greek Royals" were forced back on the Greek people by Churchill pretty much at gunpoint.
It's not the Frederica's fault she had bad relatives , why would being the Granddaughter of the Kaiser matter exactly?
@@dylangarcia3898 The point I was making is that not one of the so called "Greek" Royal family had an once of Greek blood in their bodies, so how can it be claimed that they lost something they never had?
@@aesop8694 all Royal Families are mixed these days , the British royal is ethically German ,but they are British in Every sense of the word , Greek Royals(the ones born into it at least) were born in greece , they speak the language , and they are also greek Orthodox,it seems like they are pretty covered , all though they probably could've at least married one native greek person as to solidify themselves
@@dylangarcia3898 Bit late now, they had 130 years to do so. Best stay with their own kind as they had in the past.
what is Greek blood?.
So there a chance of them coming back
What would a king do there?No king can handle so huge debt.
We Paid it off
Pretty good video, but please learn how to pronounce “Venizelos”.
Noted!
I don't speak Greek (as you could probably tell!) and the internet gave me conflicting pronouciations for his name.
@@LookBackHistory You accentuante the ZE in VeniZElos. also both "e"s in the name are pronounced the same way you pronounce the net in interNET. You probably have to remember that if you're planning any more videos on Greece since he's very important. Awesome video btw good job!
@@Gazzyl161 Thanks!
so in a nutshell:
all our previous kings were very bad at rullying so we ended up having a coup to overthrow them and after the third coup we realized that monarchy in general is outdated and kinda bad.
The question is not why Greece doesn't have kings, the real question is why in 2022 some countries DO have kings..