The History of Turkish-Occupied Greece (four volumes)

If there is one nation in the world that can be proud of its noble origin, it is undoubtedly the Greek. The glamor that surrounds this origin was redeemed by a series of testimonies and the diploma of its kindness is written in blood. Terrible storms broke out against this nation, wild and threatening waves rose and this martyred people was persecuted, enslaved, lived in ruins, swam in blood. But the sun of Hellenism, which hid for a moment from those gloomy clouds, did not take long to rise, to disperse the gloom and its mysterious power to Hellenize everything foreign. From the day after the fall, the Greeks began to fight for their liberation from the Turkish yoke. Konstantinos Sathas, responsible recorder of the successive revolutionary movements throughout Greece, composes the History of “Turkish-occupied Greece” and tells events, very little known to the reading public, from 1453 to the eve of the Greek Revolution of 1821, of which It turns out that the Greeks never stopped fighting for their liberation from the Turkish yoke. The linguistic transcription was done in plain modern Greek, with all due respect to the author’s style as well as to the accuracy of the rendering of the facts.
(From the back cover of the book)
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VOLUME ONE
FOREWORD BY KONSTANTINOS TSATSOS
THE GREEKS NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM (by K. I. Tsaousis)
THE POWER OF HELLENISM (introduction by K. SATHA)
1453 – Actions of the Greeks for an uprising in the West
1457-1463 – Pope Pius II works hard for the war against the Turks
1463 – War between the Venetians and the Turks
1469-1472 – The war between the Venetians and the Turks begins again
1474-1489 – Campaign of the Turks against Shkodra
1492-1496 – Charles VIII studies the conquest of Constantinople
1499-1503 – Bayezid launches war against the Venetians
1505-1531 – Attempts by Pope Julius II and Louis XII for a crusade
1532-1533 – War between Suleiman and Charles V
1537-1538 – Naval battle at Paxos
1540-1570 – Peace of the Venetian Republic and Sultan with heavy conditions for the first
VOLUME TWO
1570-1571 – Sopot is conquered
1571 – The Melissians
1573-1585 – Peace between the Venetians and the Sultan
1588-1603 – The Orsini instruct Emperor Rodolfo II to expel the Turks from Epirus
1603-1606 – Raids of Tuscans, Neapolitans and Maltese in Greece
1609-1624 – Mani Rebellion
1616-1620 – The revolution of the metropolitan of Trikki Dionysiou
1645-1669 – War in Crete
1647-1667 – Rebellion of the Albanians of the Peloponnese
1684 – War between the Venetians and the Turks
1685 – The speech of the preacher of the genus Elias Miniatis for the liberation of Greece
VOLUME THIRD
1686 – The Peloponnese seraglio besieges Kelefas
1687 – The plague strikes all over Greece
1688 – Wreck of Zagouri
1689-1692 – Gerakaris is released from prison, proclaimed ruler of Mani and sent against the Venetians
1693-1695 – Doge Francis Morosini takes over the leadership again
1696-1699 – Fortification of the Isthmus
1699-1700 – The treatment of Greece by the West during the seventeenth century
1701-1762 – The Turks retake the Peloponnese
1765-1768 – Catherine II
1769-1770 – Revolutionary orgasm in Greece
VOLUME FOUR
1770 – Revolution in the Mainland
1770 – Battle of Cesme
1770-1780 – Pirates
1782-1792 – Correspondence of Catherine and Joseph II of Austria about the actions of the Empress of Russia for a revolution in Greece
1789-1807 – The French Revolution breaks out
1807 – Napoleon urges Ali Pasha to start hostilities
1808 – New Russian efforts for the revolt of Greeks
1808-1815 – Napoleon’s actions in Greece
1814-1821 – Crisis for Greece and the Greek personalities of the eighteenth century
1806 – Ioannis Kolettis
NOTES
KONSTANTINOS SATHAS: LIFE AND WORK (by KI TSAOUSI)
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FOUR VOLUMES