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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 Grèce avec les pays étrangères. Annual. Athens.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual Series and Miscellaneous Series. [Greek Finance. Annual Series, No. 2,370. 1899.] London.
Greece in Europe. By S. P. Skiadan. (In Greek.) 8. Athens, 1891.
Handbook of the Armies 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.
Barrows (S. J.), The Isles and Shrines 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.
Bérard (Victor), La Turquie et l’Hellenisme Contemporaine. 8. Paris, 1898.
Bianconi (C. F.), Ethnographie de la Turquie, de l’Europe et de la Grèce. Paris, 1877.
Bickford-Smith (R. A. H.), Greece under King George. 8. London, 1893.
Brockhaus (Hermann), Griechenland, geographisch, geschichtlich und kulturhistorisch von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart dargestellt. 4. Leipzig, 1870.
Campbell (Hon. Dudley), Turks and Greeks. 8. London, 1887.
Co-operation of Foreign Bondholders, Report of Council, Appendix, issued August, 1898. London.
Estournelle de Constant (Baron d’), La Vie de Province en Grèce. 8. Paris, 1878.
Field (H. M.), Greek Islands and Turkey after the War. 8. London, 1885.
Finlay (G.), A History of Greece, b.c. 146—A.D. 1864. New ed. 7 vols. 8. Oxford, 1877.
Frazer (J. G.), Pausanias’s Description of Greece. 6 vols. London, 1898.
Greco-Turkish War of 1897. From Official Sources. By a German Staff Officer. [Eng. Trans.] London, 1898.
Guiraud (P.), La Propriété foncière en Grèce. Paris, 1893.
Guerber (H. A.), The Story of the Greeks. London, 1898.
Janeway (Catherine), Glimpses at Greece—To-day and Before Yesterday. London, 1897.
Jebb (R. C), Modern Greece : Two Lectures. 8. London, 1880.
Kolokotrones (Th.), Klepht and Warrior. [Autobiography translated.] 8. London, 1890.
Lardy (E.), La Guerre Gréco-Turque. Paris, 1899.
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.
Melingo (P. von), Griechenland in unseren Tagen. 8. Vienna, 1892.
Palmer (F.), Going to War in Greece. New York, 1897.
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.
Bodd (J. Rennell), The Customs and Lore of Modern Greece. 8. London 1892.
Base (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.
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.
Tozer (H. F.), The Islands of the Ægean. 8. Oxford, 1890.
Trikoupes (S.), History of the Greek Revolution. [In Greek.] 8. London, 1860.
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. (1900). Greece. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270299_22
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