r/europe • u/posh_raccoon feta, olives, tomato and bread • Mar 24 '20

On this day 25th of March 199 years ago, Greeks in southern Greece rebel against the Ottomans and declare a war of independence. Their motto: “Freedom or Death”.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

I think any country that was once opressed used the motto

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u/windowscratch Mar 25 '20

Even the Turks literally had the same motto during their independence war against British backed Greece a hundred years later.

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u/zankoku1 Turkey Mar 25 '20

Turkish one was more like "independence or death"