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Georgios I., born December 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 (80), 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
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. 4. London.
Commerce de la Gréce avec les pays étrangeres. Annual. Athens.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series (No. 1, 571, 1895, contains report on Greek Finance) and Miscellaneous Series. 8. London.
Greece in Europe. By S. P. Skiadan. (In Greek.) 8. Athens, 1891.
Handbook of the Armies of the Minor Balkan States. By Captain C. E. Callwell. 8. London, 1891.
2. Non-Official Publications
Baedeker’s Handbook to Greece. 2nd ed. London, 1894.
Bent (J. Th.), Modern Life and Thought Amongst the Greeks. 8. London, 1891. The Cyclades : Life Amongst the Insular Greeks. 8. London, 1885.
Berard (Victor), La Turquie et l’Hellenisme Contemporaine. 8. Paris, 1893.
Bianconi (C. F.), Ethnographie de la Turquie, de 1’Europe et de la Grece. Paris, 1877.
Bickford-Smith (R. A. H.), Greece under King George. 8. London, 1893.
Brockhaus (Hermann), Griechenland, geographisch, geschichtlich und kulturhistorisch von den altesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart dargestellt. 4. Leipzig, 1870.
Campbell (Hon. Dudley), Turks and Greeks. 8. London, 1887.
Carnarvon (Earl of), Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea. 8. London, 1870.
Estoumelle de Constant (Baron d’), La Vie de Province en Gréce. 8. Paris, 1878.
Fiell (H. M.), Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. 8. London, 1885.
Finay (G.), A History of Greece, B.C. 146—a.d. 1864. New ed. 7 vols. 8. Oxford 1877.
Jebb (R. C.), Modern Greece : Two Lectures. 8. London, 1880.
Kolokotronex (Th.), Klepht and Warrior. [Autobiography translated.] 8. London, 1890.
Mahaffy (J. P.), Rambles and Studies in Greece. 3 ed. 8. London, 1887.
Maurer (G. L. von), Das Griechische Volk in öffentlicher und privatreehtlicher Beziehun 3 vols. 8. Heidelberg, 1835.
Melingo (P. von), Griechenland in unseren Tagen. 8. Vienna, 1892.
Murray’s Handbook for Greece. 2 vols. London, 1884.
Reclus (Elisée), Géographic universelle. Vol. I. Paris, 1877.
Rodd (J. Rennell), The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece. 8. London 1892.
Schmidt (Dr. Julius), Beiträge zur physicalischen Geographie von Griechenland. 8. Leipzig, 1864–70.
Tozer (H. F.), The Islands of the Egean. 8. Oxford, 1890.
Tuckerman (Charles K.), The Greeks of To-day. 8. London, 1873.
Wordsworth (Bishop Ch.), Greece : Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. New ed. London, 1882.
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Keltie, J.S. (1896). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230253254_21
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