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Greorgios I., born December 21, 1845, the second son (Wilhelm) of Prince Christian of Sehleswig-Holsteiu-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 November 2, 1863; married, October 27, 1867, to Queen Olga, born August 22 (September 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 1892. Athènes, 1893.
Greece in Europe. By S. P. Skiadan. (In Greek.) 8. Athens, 1891.
Report by Mr. Law on the Present Economical and Financial Position in Greece. No. 1,169, ‘Annual Series, Foreign Office Reports.’ 8. London, 1893.
Report on the Trade of the Morea in No. 1,154 ; the Piraeus No 1,184 ; the Cyelades, No. 1,204, annual series ; and on the NewGreek Customs Law, No. 287, Miscellaneous Series of Foreign Office Reports, London, 1893.
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 1892.’ Imp. 4. London, 1893.
2. Non-Officials Publications
Abbott (E.), A History of Greece. 8. London, 1892.
Baedeker’s Handbook to Greece.
Bernardakis (A. N.), Le present et l’avenir de la Grèce. 8. Paris, 1870.
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Carnarvon (Earl of), Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea. 8. London, 1870.
Kirkwall (Viscount), Four Years m the Ionian Islands : their Political and Social Condition, with a History of the British Protectorate. 2 vols. 8. London. 1864.
Mansolas (Alex.), Rapport sur i’elat de la statistique en Grèce présenté au Congrés 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.
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Sergeant (Lewis), New Greece. 8. London, 1878.
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Wyse (Sir Thomas), Impressions of Greece. 8 London. 1871.
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Keltie, J.S. (1894). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253230_21
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