Greece Travel Guía

The medieval history of Greece is directed by Byzantine Empire that turned the Christianity, the Greek Language and the Civilization, and the Civil law. This was a powerful force in the Mediterranean bath during centuries, which they involve in the commerce, the politics, and the extension of Christianity. The Empire collaborated with Rome during the Crusades against the Muslims. Nevertheless, during the XIIIth century, the Crossed ones connected Byzantine Empire yes same and dismissed Constantinople. With flagging Byzantine Empire, invaders Fráncicos and Latin Americans came and inhabited several places of Greece. During the following centuries, Byzantine Empire began to recover the force and recover the lost, but received territory a deathblow in the XVth century when a Turkish Ottoman increasing Empire to the east conquered Constantinople.

Constantinople was renowned Istanbul. The Ottoman state was a theocracy and its political system was based on the hierarchy with on top, the Sultan, who has divine absolute rights. The Ottoman ones separated not Moslem community in "millets": Armenian, Catholic, Jew, and Orthodox. The Ottoman ones gave to the millets an enormous part of autonomy. The chief of every millet was the religious leader who was responsible for the obedience of its subject to the Sultan. The chief of the Orthodox millet was the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople. The patriarch had authority great and it assumed an important role to the progress of the Orthodox Greek society. The Ottoman state had, for several motives, a very decentralized administration. They designed military local leaders, and later the Empire was separated in the regions that were governed by “Pashas“. The official contact was limited to receive the taxes the collection and the military conscription. Orthodox priests and Christian primates gathered taxes and maintained the order, but of another part they maintained the Greek language and living traditions and allowed to keep the national identity.

The Ottoman system classified not Moslem inhabitants for imposing special taxes as the "cizye", a front tax and the tax for the freedom. According to the History of Greece, during the domination of the Ottoman one, orators of Greeks, families moved in many countries: in Romania, Russia, the Empire Hasburg.

They monopolized the commerce between the Ottoman Empire and the exterior world. These communities “of diaspora” also assumed an important role in the development of a Greek identity. They were under the inflluencia of all the modern currents, including the revolution ideology. Many persons “of diaspora” prosperous became rich and helped the Greeks for the foundation he instructs and other public institutions. The movements for the independence for minorities began to multiply in the introduction of the XIXth century.