In the 5th century BC the vast Persian empire attempted to conquer greece. If the persians had suceeded, they would have set up local tyrants, called satraps, to rule greece and would have crushed the first stivrings of democracy in europe.
The survival of greek culture and political ideas depended on the ability of the small, disunited greek city-states to band together and defend themselves against persian's overwhelming strenght. The struggle, know in western history as the persian wars, or greco-persian wars, lasted 20 years-from 499 to 479BC.
Persia already numbred among its conquests the greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor, where greek civilzation first floorished. The persian war began when some of these cities revolted against Darius I, persia's king, in 499BC.
The greek war was independence from the ottoman empire it began in 1821 and it concluded with the winning of independence in 1828. The first ruler of independent greece was the governor of Kapodistrias, who was murdered in 1831. With the support of England, France, and Russia, a monarchy was established with the signing of the Treaty of London on May 7, 1832 which created an independent Kingdom of Greece.
After greece went through all the, they entered a other war which is war world 1 in 1917 on the side of the allies. Them went the war was over greece took part in the allied occupation of turkey, where many greeks still lived. In 1921, the greek army attacked turkey from its base in smyrna and marched summer of 1922.
The greece went on to their war and began fight for their own reason which was very powerful what they were many killed. France, England, Russia, Italy, Purssia, Austria and the ottoman state participated in the conference, but greece did not. After long negotiations, the official declaration of the paris conference was adopted on 20 January 1869. According to the declaration, the greek government would be prevented from gathering gangs against the ottoman empire and sending goods and materials for cretan rebellions and the refugees would be prevented from returning to crete (9).
