Andros Odyssey Under Ottoman Rule
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Andros Odyssey Under Ottoman Rule
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Author : Stavros Boinodiris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-04
Andros Odyssey Under Ottoman Rule written by Stavros Boinodiris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04 with Fiction categories.
After the fall of Constantinople, After the fall of Constantinople, Christians under the Ottoman rule experienced a very stressful existence, under slavery conditions. They persevered through that occupation and utilized education as a tool for survival, in exchange for helping the Ottoman Empire expand militarily. To achieve their survival, Greek families employed unparalleled ingenuity, planning, patience and secrecy. Many fled abroad, further spreading Greek civilization and creating secret Greek organizations, geared to mobilize the world against the Ottomans. To defend against that, the Ottomans engineered the total separation of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, isolating any Christian rebellion from any help from the West. Greeks tried unsuccessfully to find allies in the West but eventually settled into a secret alliance with Russia, which eventually brought about the Greek Revolution of 1821. Their tenacity to preserve faith and culture, withstood centuries of pressure, even when whole societies around them yielded, and were assimilated in the Moslem world.
Andros Odyssey Liberation
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Author : Stavros Boinodiris PHD
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-01-12
Andros Odyssey Liberation written by Stavros Boinodiris PHD and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The daughter of a rich Greek family in Constantinople escapes from her dysfunctional family by getting romantically involved with a handsome visiting peasant. This union produced a little boy, Anthony Boyun-egri-oglou. Anthony grew up during troubling times. He saw very little of his father, who left for Constantinople and then Russia, to escape from being drafted in the Turkish army. He grew up in the shadows of the Ottoman Empire as it was going through major revolutions and wars. The First World War (1914-1918) followed, causing shortages and anguish on Cappadocian Greeks and Turks alike. After this war, the disastrous Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) began. In the ensuing truce, Greece and Turkey agreed to an exchange of populations. The uprooting (1924) of the Boyun-egri-oglou family involved an arduous trip, involving cart, rail and ship transports. These people left almost twelve hundred years of history behind, to seek freedom and self determination in a troubled state, overburdened with refugees. The struggle of the refugees is recounted by Anthony very graphically. In 1940, after several recoveries and disasters, Greece enters into war with Italy, turning Anthonys hopes for recovery into an impossible dream.
Andros Odyssey The Return
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Author : Stavros Boinodirs PhD
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-06-21
Andros Odyssey The Return written by Stavros Boinodirs PhD and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As the Andros Odyssey refugees in Eastern Macedonia managed to survive a series of catastrophes, a much bigger threat appears. Greece enters into World War II. Anthony leaves his wife and joins other poorly equipped Greeks at the front. Greece had to fight four enemies at once: Albania, Italy, Bulgaria and Germany. After the Greek capitulation, Eastern Macedonia was occupied by Bulgarians, who wanted to make sure that no Greek claim on that land persisted after the war. This brought about genocidal massacres of all Greek population in the area. The Bulgarian ambitions were also paralleled by Hitlers Final Solution, regarding the Jewish presence in Greece. As the couple and the people around them struggle to survive this murderous environment, they face starvation, greed, language problems, misinformation, illness, treason, and a variety of other factors. Worse yet, following the capitulation of Germany, Greece is plagued by a new catastrophe, a civil war between communist and nationalist factions that lead to the Cold War. As a result, the Greeks sacrifice proportionally the highest part (almost 10%) of their population during this period of War II. It was the earlier part of this noted sacrifice that gave crucial time to the Russians to muster their strength for a decisive WWII victory against the Germans. The end of the civil war finds Anthony and Elisabeth with two sons, barely able to feed themselves. The oldest son, after reaching adulthood leaves for Germany in search of work. The younger one, after finishing high school, and not being able to afford advanced schooling in Greece leaves for the United States, to help his great uncle, Pandel Mayo in exchange for college tuition. He happens to be the author of this book.
Andros Odyssey
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Author : Stavros Boinodiris Ph D
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-09
Andros Odyssey written by Stavros Boinodiris Ph D and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09 with Fiction categories.
The families of Andros Odyssey are entangled in the insanity and the destructive forces of the Crusades. The Crusades started with Islam, which expanded through war by making people believe through force. This brought the Crusades, a series of holy wars. They were a means of defending against the expansion of Islam. The Crusades were led by equally self-righteous, intolerant and ruthless people. The proto-imperialism of the Crusaders introduced Western aggression to the Middle East, leaving it in ruins and at the same time, devastating Byzantium, which happened to be in the way. In desperation, the Byzantines had to fight both, Christians and Moslems. Byzantium, with its stiff resistance against the idea of the Crusades, soon became an enemy to the West. As a result, the failed Crusades left Byzantium exhausted and vulnerable to new attacks from the East. In spite of the danger to the West, help against the Turks came too little and too late, resulting in the total destruction of Byzantium and the fall of Constantinople. From the ruins of all these relentless attacks on the Byzantine families, new families evolve and old families are transformed because of name changes under the Turkish occupation.
Andros Odyssey
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Author : Stavros Boinodiris, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Stavros Boinodiris
Release Date : 2005-09
Andros Odyssey written by Stavros Boinodiris, Ph.D. and has been published by Stavros Boinodiris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09 with Fiction categories.
The families of Andros Odyssey are entangled in the insanity and the destructive forces of the Crusades. The Crusades started with Islam, which expanded through war by making people believe through force. This brought the Crusades, a series of holy wars. They were a means of defending against the expansion of Islam. The Crusades were led by equally self-righteous, intolerant and ruthless people. The proto-imperialism of the Crusaders introduced Western aggression to the Middle East, leaving it in ruins and at the same time, devastating Byzantium, which happened to be in the way. In desperation, the Byzantines had to fight both, Christians and Moslems. Byzantium, with its stiff resistance against the idea of the Crusades, soon became an enemy to the West. As a result, the failed Crusades left Byzantium exhausted and vulnerable to new attacks from the East. In spite of the danger to the West, help against the Turks came too little and too late, resulting in the total destruction of Byzantium and the fall of Constantinople. From the ruins of all these relentless attacks on the Byzantine families, new families evolve and old families are transformed because of name changes under the Turkish occupation.
Andros Odyssey
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Author : Stavros Boinodiris, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-06
Andros Odyssey written by Stavros Boinodiris, Ph.D. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06 with Fiction categories.
Andros Odyssey: Byzantine Kalivarion introduces you to the Psellus family from Andros. The family is entangled in an 8th century east-west religious struggle between the idol-bashing supporters of Judaism and Islam and the art-loving Greeks and Romans. Part of the Psellus family is exiled to Cappadocia, as part of an imperial program to unify and defend the Byzantine Empire. The exiles establish Kalivarion, a Cappadocian colony. The families survive four centuries (700-1100 AD) of Byzantine turmoil and struggle. One of them, historian and politician Michael Psellus left behind an Empire in ruins and his famous history of that period. The family changes their name to Megas to avoid humiliation and becomes intertwined with the Stravolemis family, after the liberation of a bastard slave from Crete. During recent centuries, Byzantium had an undeservingly critical view by western authors. It was only lately, that light has been shed on how important Byzantine culture was in the development of our Western civilization. Our knowledge of Greek and Roman literature and law, we owe to the Byzantines. Western renaissance was based on Byzantine art, music and thought.
A History Of Greece
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Author : George Finlay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-06
A History Of Greece written by George Finlay and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with History categories.
This classic seven-volume work, incorporating authorial revisions and published posthumously in 1877, traces the history of Greece across two millennia.
A History Of Greece Mediaeval Greece And The Empire Of Trebizond A D 1204 1461
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Author : George Finlay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
A History Of Greece Mediaeval Greece And The Empire Of Trebizond A D 1204 1461 written by George Finlay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Byzantine Empire categories.
Mediaeval Greece And The Empire Of Trebizond A D 1204 1461
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Author : George Finlay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
Mediaeval Greece And The Empire Of Trebizond A D 1204 1461 written by George Finlay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Byzantine Empire categories.
A History Of Greece
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Author : George Finlay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
A History Of Greece written by George Finlay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Byzantine Empire categories.