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Great Eastern crisis of 1875-78: The Turkish fleet in Souda bay exercises in preparation against a supposed Russian attack by torpedoes.
View of Kavala from the sea.
Greek uprising in Thessaly, 1878: View of Mount Pelion from the gulf of Volos.
Greek insurgents in Thessaly, during the 1878 uprising.
Map of the Balkan peninsula after the treaty of San Stefano, 1878.
Wreck of the “Assyrian” on the island of Elafonisi, Crete (1878).
Map of Southeastern Europe after the Berlin Treaty (1878).
Siege of the village of Kissamos or Kasteli, Crete, during the Cretan Revolution of 1866-1869.
View of Souda bay, Crete.
Cretan Revolt (1866-69): Skirmishing in the Cretan mountains.
Casket presented to the George I of Greece by the City of London, during the king's visit to the city.
British colonel Synge returns to Thessaloniki after his abduction by Greek insurgents durint the events of 1878 in Thessaly and Macedonia.
Janissary of the Greek consulate in Thessaloniki.
View of Mount Olympus from the plain of Thessaly. Mount Olympus marked the northeastern border of Greece from the Treaty of Berlin (1878) to the Treaty of Bucarest (1913).
View of Ioannina. In the centre, the mosque of Aslan Pasha. Ioannina did not in fact become Greek territory until the 1913 Treaty of Bucarest, after the Balcan Wars. The proposition that it be ceded to Greece in 1878 was rejected by the Congress of Berlin due to the reaction of the Ottoman side.
Map of the new territories acquired by Greece after the Treaty of Berlin in 1878. Ioannina did not in fact become Greek territory until the 1913 Treaty of Bucarest, after the Balcan Wars. The proposition that it be ceded to Greece in 1878 was rejected by the Congress of Berlin due to the reaction of the Ottoman side. With the Treaty of Berlin the Kingdom of Greece acquired Arta and adjacent area.
View of Meteora.
The castle of Souli (or castle of Kiafa).
Landscape at the vale of Tempi.
Panoramic view of the silver mines of Lavrio.
Ancient furnaces at Lavrio.
Ancient washing-place at the silver mines of Lavrio.
View of Piraeus from the spot called “seat of Xerxes” on Mount Aigaleo.
The castle of Chios after the devastating earthquake of 1881.
The castle of Chios after the devastating earthquake of 1881.
Snapshots of the days after the devastating earthquake of Chios in April 1881: 1. Procession 2. Ruins of houses at Aplotaria, main street of the town of Chios. 3. Residents of Chios awaiting the arrival of provisions. 4. Ruins before the Governor's palace.
The castle of Arta.
The remains of the church of the Knights Hospitaller, Rhodes, after the explosion which occurred in the earthquake of 1856.
The Archbishop of Syra and Tinos.
The plain of Marathon where the band of the brigand brothers abducted a group of foreign travellers (Dilessi murders, 1870).