Volume VII - 1953

Author Category Volume Page Year Language Vlachos Ν. PAPERS AND STUDIES 7 422 - 435 1953 Greek Title Speech on the anniversary of the holocaust of the Monastery of Arkadi and its defenders, made in Rethymnon on 7 November 1951 Summary PDF Presentation of the international situation which influenced the Cretan rising of 1866-1869. The Russian Panslavists were concentrating on the protection of the enslaved Slav peoples of the Ottoman Empire and the quest for an exit to the Aegean Sea. France, although aspiring to greater influence in the eastern Mediterranean, was absorbed in the attempt to counterbalance the inordinate strengthening of Prussia’s position. Britain, in order to secure the route to its colonial state of India, insisted on the preservation of the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire. The latter consented to grant concessions to the Cretans with the “Organic Law of Crete of 1868”, but this was not implemented. The Greek government secured an alliance with the semi-independent state of Serbia, but to no real purpose.