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Georgios I., 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 the King of Denmark, acting as his guardian, 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 Queen Olga, born Aug. 22 (Sept. 3), 1851, the eldest daughter of Grand-duke Constantine of Eussia, brother of the late Emperor Alexander II.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Greece
1. Official Publications
Report by Mr. E. 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.’ Ko. I. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Eeport by Mr. Frank C. Lascelles, Secretary of Legation, on the Commerce and Shipping of Greece, dated Athens, July 10, 1878, in ‘Reports by H.M’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ Part IV. 1878. 8. London, 1878.
Eeport by Mr. Egerton on the finances and commerce of Greece in 1882, in Part III.; and by Mr, Grevi He on railways, roads, &c. in Part IV. of ‘Reports of H.M.’s Secretaries of Legation,’ 1883.
Reports by Mr. Consul Sebright on the Commerce of Corfu; by Mr. Consul Wood on the Trade of Patras; by Mr. Vice-Consul Onofrio on the Trade of Santa Maura, and by Mr. Consul Stevens on the Commerce of Zante, dated January 1878; in ‘Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part II. 1878. S. London, 1878.
Report by Mr. Consul Merlin on the trade and commerce of Continental Greece, dated Piraeus, March 24, 1879; io ‘Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part III. 1879. 8. London, 1879.
Reports by Vice-Consul Saunders on the trade and commerce of Cephalonia for 1880; by Consul Reade on Corfu; by Consul Wood on Patras (1881); by Vice-Consul Onofrio on Santa Maura (1880); by Vice-Consul Canale on Zante, in Part III.; by Consul Longworth on Thessaly (1881), in Part IV.; by Consul Merlin on the Piraeus (1881), in Part ‘VIII.; by Consul Binney on Syra (1881). in Part XV. of ‘ Reports from H.M.’s Consuls,’ 1882.
Report by Consul Wood on the trade and commerce of Patras, in Part II.; by Consul Longworth on Thessaly, in Part VIII.; and by Consul Merlin on the trade and commerce of Greece, in Part IX. of ‘ Reports of H.M.’s Consuls,’ 1883.
Report by Consul-Gen eral Schuyler on the commerce and products of Greece in ‘Reports from the Consuls of the United States,’ August 1883. Washington, 1883.
Trade of Greece with foreign countries; total imports and exports from 1871 to 1881; in ‘Statistical Abstract for the Principal Foreign Countries.’ Ko. IX. 8. London, 1882.
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 1882.’ Imp. 4. London, 1883.
2. Non-Official Publications
Bernardakis (A. N.) Lo présent et l’avenir de la Grèce. 8. Paris, 1870.
Bianconi (C, E.), Ethnographie de la Turquie de l’Europe et de la Grèce. Paris, 1877.
Brockhaus (Hermann) Griechenland, geographisch, geschichtlich und kulturhistorisch von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart dargestellt. 4. Leipzig, 1870.
Campbell (Hon. Dudley) Turks and Greeks. 8. London, 1877.
Carnarvon (Earl of) Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea. 8. London, 1870.
Cusani (E.) Memorie storico-statìstiche sulla Dalmazia, auìle isole Ionie e sulla Grecia. 2 vols. 8. Milano, 1862.
Digenis (Basile) Quelques noies statistiques sur la Grèce. 8. Marseille, 1878.
Dora d’ Istria (Mme.) Excursions en Roumélie et en Morée. 2 vols. 8. Paris, I860.
Kirkwall (Viscount) Four Years in the Ionian Islands : their Political and Social Condition, with a History of the British Protectorate. 2 vols. 8. London. 1864.
Leconte (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.-Pétershourg eu 1872. 8. Athènes, 1872.
Mansolas (A.) La Grèce à l’Exposition universelle de Paris en 1878. 8. Paris, 1878.
Maurer (G. L. von) Das Griechische Volk in Öffentlicher und privatrechtlioher Beziehung. 3 vols. 8. Heidelberg, 1835.
Reclus (Elisée). Geographie Universelle. Vol. I. Paris, 1877.
Schmidt (Dr. Julius) Beiträge zur physicalischeu Geographie von Griechenland. 3 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1864–70.
Sergeant (Lewis) New Greece. 8. London, 1878.
Strickland (Edw.) Greece, its Condition and Resources. London, 1863.
‘I’utckerman (Charles K.) The Greeks of To-day. 8. London, 1873.
Wyse (Sir Thomas) Impressions of Greece. 8. London, 1871.
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Keltie, J.S. (1884). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253131_7
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