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Georgios I., born December 24, 1845, N.S., 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 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 Grèce avec les pays étrangères. Annual. Athens.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual Scries and Miscellaneous Series. [Greek Finance Annua! Series, No. 2,482. 1900.] London.
Greece in Europe. By S. P. Skiadan. (In Greek.) 8. Athens, 1891.
Handbook of the Annies of Bulgaria, Greece, &c. By Captain W. E. Fairholme and Captain Count Gleichen. London, 1895.
Regarding political transactions concerning Greece from 1826 onwards, the Parliamentary papers (correspondence, conventions, protocols, treaties, reports, &c.)are available.
Correspondence Respecting the Finances of Greece, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (1898). [C.—8778; C.—8818; and C.—8849.]. London, 1898.
2. Non-Official Publications
Armstrong (Isabel J.), Two Roving Englishmen in Greece. New ed. London, 1897.
Avelot (H.), Croquis de Grèce et de Turquie. Paris, 1897.
Baedeker’s Handbook for Greece. 2nd ed. London, 1894.
Barraros (S. J.), The Isles and Shriues of Greece. London, 1898.
Bent (J. Th.), Modern Life and Thought Amongst thé Greeks. 8. London, 1891. The Cyclades: Life Amongst the Insular Greeks. 8. London, 1885.
Birard (Victor), La Turquie et l’Hellenisme Contemporain. 8. Paris, 1893. — Les affaires de Crete. Pans, 1900.
Bianconi (C. F.), Ethnographie de ia Turquie, de. l’Europe et de la Grèce. Paris, 1877.
Bickfor d-Smith (R. A. H.), Greece under King George. 8. London, 1893.
Brockhaus (Hermann), Gricchenland, geographisch, gesehichtlich und kulturhisiovisch von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart dargestellt. 4. ‘Leipzig’, 1870.
Campbell (Hon. Dudley), Turks and Greeks. 8. London, 1887.
Claparide (A. de), Corfou et les Corfiotes. Pan’s, 1900.
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, Report of Council, Appendix, issued August, 1900. London.
Deschamps (G.), La Grèce d’Aujourd’hui. Paris, 1892.
Dubois (M.), et Guy (C.), Album Geographique. Vol. III. Paris, 1899.
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Field (H. M.), Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. 8. London, 1885.
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Frazer (J. G.), Pausanias’s Description of Greece. 6 vols. London, 1898.
Greco-Turkish War of 1897. From Official Sources. By a German Stalf Officer. [Eng. Trans.] London. 1898.
Guiraud (P.), La Propriété foncière en Grèce. Paris, 1893.
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Isambert (G.), L’Independance Grequect l’Europe. Paris, 1900.
Janeway (Catherine), Glimpses at Greece—To-day and Before Yesterday. London. 1897.
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Mahaffy (J. P.), Rambles and Studies in Greece. 3 ed. 8. London, 1887.
Maurer (G. L. von), Das Griechische Volk in öffentlicher und privatrechtlicher Beziehung 3 vols. 8. Heidelberg, 1835.
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Murray’s Handbook for Greece. New ed. London, 1900.
Palmer (F.), Going to War in Greece. New York, 1897.
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Philemon (John), Essay on the Greek Revolution. 4 vols. Athens, 1861.
Philippson (A.), Thessalien und Epirus. Berlin, 1897.
Phillips (W. A.), The Greek War of Independence, 1821–33. London, 1897.
Pullen (H. W.), Handbook (Murray’s) for Greece and the Ionian Islands. 6th ed. London, 1895.
Reclus (Elisée), Géographie universelle. Vol. I. Paris, 1877.
Rodd (J. Rennell), The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece. 8. London 1892
Hoste (W. K.), With the Greeks in Thessaly. London, 1897.
Samuelson (J.), Greece: Present Condition and Recent Progress. 8. London, 1894.
Schmidt (Dr. Julius), Beiträge zur physicalischen Geographie von Griechenland. 8. Leipzig, 1864–70.
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Sergeant (L.), Greece in the 19th Century. London, 1897.
Symonds (J. A.), Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece. 3 vols. 2nd ed. London 1898.
Toser (H. F.), The Islands of the Ægean. 8. Oxford, 1890.
Trikoupes (S.), History of the Greek Revolution. [In Greek.] 4 vols. London, 1860.
Tuckcrman (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. (1901). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270305_22
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