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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Greenhalgh, Plundered Empire : acquiring antiquities from Ottoman lands (Brill 2019)

Plundered Empire

P. XII

"These describe the trophies from the greatest plunder of all, namely the bloody separation of Greece from Ottoman rule, sold in the West as the liberty gained by innocent Christian Greeks from the cruel and barbarian Muslim yoke. One decisive act was the destruction of Ottoman naval power in 1827 by the navies of Britain, France and Russia at the Battle of Navarino."

Eugène Delacroix - Le Massacre de Scio.jpg
                    The Massacre of Chios, Eugene Delacroix, 1824. From Wikimedia Commons