Aftermath
The consequences of the Greek revolution were somewhat ambiguous in the immediate aftermath. An independent Greek state had been established, but with Britain, Russia and France claiming a major role in Greek politics. The country had been literally destroyed by the ten years of harsh brutality. The population of the new Greek state numbered 800,000 represented less than one-third of the 2.5 million Greek inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire. Since the Greeks had become free, they were regarded, in the Ottoman Empire, especially by the Muslims, as traitors. In the long-term perspective, this marked a seminal event in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, taking into account the small size and the impoverishment of the new Greek state. For the first time, Christian subject people had achieved independence from the Ottoman rule, and established a fully independent state, recognized by Europe. “Shortly after the war finished, the people of the Russian-dependent Poland, encouraged by the Greek victory, started the November Uprising, hoping to regain their independence. The uprising, however, failed and Polish independence had to wait until 1918. The newly established Greek state would become a springboard for further expansion and, over the course of a century, parts of Macedonia, Crete, Epirus, the Aegean and other Greek-speaking territories would unite with the new Greek state.” Source: AgiaSofia.com