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Georgios I., King of the Hellenes, born Dec. 24,1845, the second son (Wilhelm) of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, present King of Denmark ; elected King of the Hellenes by the National Assembly at Athens, March 18 (30), 1863; accepted the crown, through his father and the King of Denmark, acting as his guardians, June 4, 1863; declared of age by decree of the National Assembly, June 27,1863; landed in Greece, Nov. 2,1863. Married, October 27, 1867, to
Olga, Queen of the Hellenes, born Aug. 22 (Sept. 3), 1851, the eldest daughter of Grand-duke Constantine of Russia, brother of the Emperor Alexander II. Issue of the union are three sons and one daughter, namely, Konstantinos, Duke of Sparta, heir-apparent, born Aug. 2, 1868; Georgios, born June 25, 1869; Alexandra, born Aug. 30, 1870; and Nicolass, born Feb. 2, 1872.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Greece
1. Official Publications
(Census of Greece in 1870.) 8. Athens, 1871.
Report by Mr. R. G. Watson, Secretary of Legation, on the Financial Position and the Public Debt of Greece, dated Athens, July 31, 1870; in ‘Reports of H.M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ No. I. 1871. 8. London, 1871.
Report by Mr. R. G. Watson, Secretary of Legation, on the state of education and the obstacles of material progress in Greece, dated Athens, Jan. 20, 1872 ; in ‘Reports of H. M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ No.I. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Reports of Messrs. Gould, Finlay, Merlin, Ongley, Sebright, and Saunders, dited October—November, 1869, on Population, Agriculture, and Tenure of Land in Greece, inclusive of the Ionian Islands ; in ‘ Reports from Her Majesty’s Representatives respecting the Tenure of Land in the various countries of Europe.’ Part I. Fol. London, 1870.
Report bv Mr. Consul Merlin, on the trade of continental Greece, dated the Piraeus, Oct. 31,1872; in ‘Reports of H. M.’s Consuls.’ No.I. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Report by Mr. Consul Ongley, on the trade of the Morca for the year 1S71; dated Patras, May 6, 3872; in ‘Reports from H. M.’s Cor suls.’ No. III. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Reports by Consul Sir C. Sebright, on the trade of Corfu ; by Mr. Consul Ongley, on the trade of the Morca ; by Mr. Consul Merlin, on the trade of the Piræus ; by Mr. Consul Baby, on the trade of Syr; and by Mr. Vice-Consul Cohen, on the trade of Cephalonia, dated Sept.–Oct., 1872, to Jan., 1873; in ‘ Reports by H. M.’s Consuls on British Trade abroad.’ Part I.’ 8. London, 1873.
Report by Mr, Consul Raby on the commerce of the Cyclades ; by Mr. Consul Ongley on the trade of Patras ; and by Mr. Vice-Consul Blakeney on the commerce of-Missolonghi, dated January 10-28, 1874; in ‘ Reports from H. M.’s Consuls on the manufactures, commerce, &c, of their consular districts.’ Part H 1874. 8. London, 1874.
Report by Mr. Consul Raby un the trade and commerce of Syra for the year 1873, dated Syra, March 7, 1874; in Reports from H. M’s Consuls on the manufactures, commerce, &c, of their consular districts.’ Part III. 1874. 8. London, 1874.
Trade of Greece with foreign countries: total imports and exports from 1860 to 1871 ; in ‘Statistical Abstract for the Principal Foreign Countries.’ No. L 8. London, 1874.
Trade of Greece with the United Kingdom ; in ‘Annual Statement of the trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions, for the year 1873.’ Imp. 4. London, 1874.
2. Non-Official Publications
Bernardakis (A. N.) Le présent et l’avenir de la Grèce. 8. . Paris, 1870.
Bikllas (Demetrius) Statistics of the Kingdom of Greece. In ‘ Journal of the Statistical Society of London,’ Vol. XXL 8. London, 1868.
Brockhaus (Hermann) Griechenland geographisch, geschichtlich und kulturhistorisch von/den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart dargestellt. 4. Leipzig, 1870.
Carnarvon (Earl of) Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea. 8. London, 1870.
Cusani (F.) Memorie storico-statistique sulla Dalmazia, sidle isole Ionie e sulla Grecia. 2 vols. 8. Milano, 1862.
Dora d’Istria (Mme.) Excursions en Roumélie et en Morée. 2 vols. 8. Paris, 1865.
KirKwall (Viscount) Four Years in the Ionian Islands : their Political and Social Condition, with a Hisetory of the British Protectorate. 2 vols. 8. London, 1864.
Leconie (C.) Étude économique de la Grèce. 8. Paris, 1849.
Mansolas (Alex.) Rapport sur l’état de la statistique en Grèce présenté au Congrès International de Statistique de St.-Pėtersbourg en 1872. 8, Athènes, 1872.
Maurer (G. L.’ von) Das Griechische Volk in öffentlicher und privatrechtlicher Beziehung. 3 vois. 8. Heidelberg, 1835.
Schmidt (Dr. Julius) Beiträge zur physicalischen Geographie von Griechenland. 3 vols. 8, Leipzig, 1864–70.
Strickland (Edw.) Greece, its Condition and Resources. London, 1863.
Tuckerman (Charles K.), The Greeks of to-day. 8. London, 1873.
Watson (R. G.) Handbook for Greece and the Ionian Islands. (Murray’s. New Edition. 8. London, 1871.
Wyse (Sir Thomas) Impressions of Greece. 8. London. 1871.
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Martin, F. (1875). Greece. In: The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253049_7
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