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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 Russia, brother of the late Emperor Alexander II.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Greece
1. Official Publications
Commerce de la Grèce avec les pays étrangères pendant l’année 1887. Athènes, 1888.
The Finances of Greece. Speeches delivered by Η. Ε. M. Charilaos Tricoupis in introducing to the Hellenic Chamber the budgets for 1887 and 1888. London, 1886–87.
Report by Mr. R. G. Watson, Secretary of Legation, on the state of education ana 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 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 on the finances of Greece, No. 194 ‘Diplomatic and Consular Reports.’ London, 1887.
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 1887.’ Imp. 4. London, 1888.
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 Ionie 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 (Α.), 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 Geographie 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. (1889). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253186_7
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