The Greek Independence Day on March 25

Every year on the 25^th of March whole Greece is celebrating. In every school children create a parade and theatre plays or other presentations to the topic 25^th of March. In the cities there are bigger parades and the Greek flag is present everywhere. But what is this exciting day about?

 In 1453 after many years the Ottomans finally took over the Byzantine Empire. So Greece was under Ottoman authority over 400 years. Not till the 19^th century they started to work against the Turkish oppression. They built small politic groups, which worked secretly first, to prepare for the revolution against the rule of the Turks. On the 25^th of March in 1821 they started the revolution and this day is seen as the start of the Greeks’ lib.

The war last 11 years, later Russia, the United Kingdom, France and several other European Countries supported Greece against the Ottoman Empire. And finally the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the captured part of Central Greece by 1828. As a result of years of negotiation, Greece was finally recognized as an independent nation in May 1832.