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Georgios I., born Dec. 24, 1845, the second son (Wilhelm) of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glüeksburg, 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, 1807, 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 Reference concerning Greece
1. Official Publications
The Finances of Greece. Speech delivered by H. E. M. Charilaos Tricoupis in introducing to the Hellenic Chamber the budgot for 1887. London, 1886.
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.
Report by Mr. Egerton on the finances and commerce of Greece in 1882, in Part III. ; and by Mr. Greville 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 I., of ‘Reports from H.M.’s Diplomatic and Consular Officers.’ Part I. 1884. Folio, London. 1884.
Report by Mr. Nicolson on the finances, &c. of Greece, in ‘Reports of H.M.’s Diplomatic and Consular Officers Abroad.’ Part I., 1885. Folio.
Report by Sir Horace Rumbold on the Budget of 1885, and the general condition of the Greek finances, in ‘Reports of H.M.’s Diplomatic and Consular Agents Abroad.’ Part IV. Folio. London, 1885.
Report by Mr. Consul Merlin on the trade and commerce of Continental Greece, dated Piræus, March 24. 1879; in ‘Reports from H.M.’s Consuls.’ Part III. 1879. 8. London, 1879.
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 States,’ August 1883. Washington. 1883.
Report on the trade of Corfu in No. 17, and on Syra in No. 37, of ‘Diplomatic and Consular Reports.’ London, 1886.
Reports on Cephalonia. Corfu, and Zante, in Part I., on Patras in Part II., and on Volo in Part III. of ‘ Reports of H.M.’s Consuls.’ London, 1886.
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 1885.’ Imp. 4. London, 1886.
2. Non-Official Publications
Bernardakis (A. N.), Le 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 the Morea. 8. London, 1870.
Cusani (F.), Memorie storico-statistiche sulla Dalmazia, sulle isole Ionic e sulla Grecia. 2 vols. 8. Milano, 1862.
Digcnis (Basile), Quelques notes statistiques sur la Grèce. 8. Marseille, 1878.
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 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 physicalisehen Geographie von Griechenland. 3 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1864–70.
Sergeant (Lewis), New Greece. 8. London, 1878.
Tuckerman (Charles K.), The Greeks of To-day. S. London, 1873.
Wyse (Sir Thomas), Impressions of Greece. 8. London, 1871.
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Keltie, J.S. (1887). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253162_7
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