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Georgios I., bom Dec. 24, 1845, the second son (Wilhelm) of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 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 Russia, brother of the late Emperor Alexander II.
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Statistical and other Books of Eefereuce concerning Greece. 1. Official Publications
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. 1. 1872. 8. London, 1872.
Report by Mr. Frank C. Laseellcs, Secretary of Legation, on the Commerce and Shipping of Greece, dated Athens, July 10, 1S7S, in ‘Reports by H.M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ Part IV. 1878. 8. London, 1878.
Report by Mr. Egerton on the finances and commerce of Greece in 1882, in Part III. ; and by Mr. Grevillo on railways, roads, &c. in Part IV. of ‘Reports of H.M.’s Secretaries of Legation,’ 1883.
Report and Analysis of the Greek Budget of 1884, by Mr. Nicolson, in Part III.; by Mr. Ford on the Greek Budget, in Part L, of ‘ Reports from H.M.’s Diplomatic and Consular Officers.’ Part I. 1884. Folio, London, 1884.
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.’ Tart II. 1878. 8. London, 1878.
Report by Mr. Consul Merlin on the trade and commerce of Continental Greece, dated Piraeus, March 24, 1879; in’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 Piræus (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-General Schuyler on the commerce and products of Greece in ‘ Reports from the Consuls of the United State.’ August 1883. Washington, 1883.
Reports on the Trade and Commerce of Cephalonia and Santa Maura, in Part I. ; Corfu, Patras, and Syra, in Part II. ; Syra and the Piræus, in Part VII.; Cephalonia, in Part IX. of ‘Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ 1884. London, 1884.
Trade of Greece with foreign countries: total imports and exports from 1871 to 1881 ; in ‘ Statistical Abstract for the Principal Foreign Countries.’ No. X. 8.London, 1884.
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 1883.’ Imp. 4. London, 1884.
2. Non-Officials Publications
Bemardakis (A. N.), Lo présent et l’avenir de la Grèce. 8. Paris, 1870.
Bianconi (C. F.), 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 tho Morca. 8. London, 1870.
Cusani (F.), Memorie storico-statistiche sulla Dalmazia, sulle isole Ionie e sulla Grecia. 2 vols. 8. Milano, 1862.
Digenis (Basile), Quelques notes statistiques sur la Grèce. S. Marseille, 1878.
Bora d’Istria (Mme.), Excursions en Roumélie et en Moréo. 2 vols. 8. Paris, 1865.
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.
Mansolas (Alex.), Rapport sur l’état de la statistique en Grèce présenté au Congrès International de Statistique de St.-Pétersbourg en 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 privatrechtlicher Beziehung. 3 vols. 8. Heidelberg, 1835.
Murray’s Handbook for Greece, 2 vols. London, 1884.
Reclus (Elisée), Géographie Universelle. Vol. I. Paris, 1877.
Schmidt (Dr. Julius), Beiträge zur physicalischen Géographie von Griechenland. 3 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1864–70.
Sergeant (Lewis), New Greece. 8. London, 1878.
Tuckerman (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. (1885). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253148_7
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