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Georgios I., born December 24, 1845, N.S., the second son (Wilhelm) of Christian, late King of Denmark; elected King of the Hellenes by the National Assembly at Athens, March 18 (30), 1863; accepted the crown, through his father acting as his guardian, June 4, 1863; declared of age by decree of the National Assembly, June 27, 1863; landed in Greece, November 2, 1863; married, October 27, 1867, to Queen Olga, born August 22 (September 3), 1851, the eldest daughter of Grand-duke Constantine of Russia, brother of the late Emperor Alexander II.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference Concerning Greece
1. Official Publications
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. London.
Commerce spécial de la Grèce avec les pays étrangers. Bulletin trimestriel. Athens.
Compte Rendu (annuel) des opérations de la Commission Financière Internationale.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series and Miscellaneous Series. London.
Handbook of the Armies of Bulgaria, Greece, &c. By Captain W. E. Fairholme and Captain Count Gleichen. London, 1901.
Regarding political transactions concerning Greece from 1826 onwards, the Parliamentary papers (correspondence, conventions, protocols, treaties, reports, &c.) are available.
Correspondence Respecting the Finances of Greece, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1898). [C—8778; C—8818; and C.—8849.]. London, 1898.
2. Non-Official Publications
Andreópoulos (Stavros), Memoirs on the Greek Revolution, written by Photios Chrysanthópoulos or Photákos. 2 vols, [In Greek.] Athens, 1900.
Atkinson (S.), An Artist in Corfu. London, 1911.
Baedeker’s Greece. 4th ed. Leipzig, 1908.
Bent (J. Th.), Modern Life and Thought Amongst the Greeks. London, 1891. The Cyclades: Life Amongst the Insular Greeks. London, 1885.
Bérard (Victor), La Turquie et l’Hellénisme Contemporain. Paris, 1893.—Les affaires de Crète. Paris, 1900.
Bickford-Smith (R. A. H.), Greece under King George. London, 1893.
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Report of Council, Appendix. Annual. London.
Deeasos (P. A.), Die Landwirtschaft im heutigen Griechenland. Berlin, 1904.
Dubois (M.), et Guy (C.), Album Géographique. Vol. III. Paris, 1899.
Finlay (G.) A History of Greece, B.C. 146—A.D. 1864. New ed. 7 vols. Oxford, 1877.
Frazer (J. G.), Pausanias’s Description of Greece, 6 vols. London, 1898.
Freeman (E. A.), Greater Greece and Greater Britain. London, 1886.
Gobineau (Comte de), Deux Etudes sur la Grèce Moderne. Paris, 1905.
Greco-Turkish War of 1897. From Official Sources. By a German Staff Officer. [Eng. Trans.] London, 1898.
Guerber (H. A.), The Story of the Greeks. London, 1896.
Guillaume (Baron), Grèce Contemporaine. Bruxelles. 1901.
Immbert (G.), L’Indépendance Greque et l’Europe. Paris, 1900.
Lambros (Sp. P.), History of Greece to the reign of Otho. [In Greek.] Athens, 1886.
Lardy (E.), La Guerre Gréco-Turque. Paris, 1899.
Macmillan’s Guides: “Guide to Greece, the Archipelago, Constantinople, the Coasts of Asia Minor, Crete, Cyprus, &c.” 4th ed. London, 1908.
Mahaffy (J. P.), Rambles and Studies in Greece. 5 ed. London, 1907.
Miller (W.), Greek Life in Town and Country. London, 1905.
Murray’s Handbook for Greece. 7th ed. London, 1905.
Papparigopoulos (K.), History of the Hellenic Nation. 2nd ed., 5 vols. (In Greek) Athens, 1886.
Philaretos (G, S.), Constitution Grecque. [In Greek] Athens, 1889.
Philippson (A.), Thessalien und Epirus. Berlin, 1897.—Griechenland und seine Stellung im Orient. Leipzig, 1897.—Beiträge zur griechischen Inselwelt. Leipzig, 1901.
Phillips (W. A.), The Greek War of Independence, 1821–33. London, 1897.
Rodd (J. Rennell), The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece. London 1892.
Schmedler, Geschichte des Königreichs Griechenland. Heidelberg, 1876.
Seignobos (C.), Histoire politique de l’Europe Contemporaine. Paris, 1897. Eng. Trans 2 vols. London, 1900.
Sergeant (L.), Greece in the 19th Century. London, 1897.
Symonds (J. A.), Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece. 3 vols. 2nd ed. London, 1898.
Tozer (H. F.), Lectures on the Geography of Greece, London, 1873.—The Islands of the Ægean. Oxford, 1890.
Trikoupes (S.), History of the Greek Revolution. [In Greek] 4 vols. London, 1860.
Wordsworth (Bishop Ch.), Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. New ed. (revised Tozer). London, 1882.
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Keltie, J.S. (1912). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270411_25
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