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# History podcast - the birth of modern Greece
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/history-podcast-birth-of-modern-greece/
- Published: 2012-06-17T21:06:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:04:55.000Z
- Description: In this hour-long informal conversation, Terence Mitchison provides the historian's background to the modern Greek state - from Venetian/Ottoman contestation to the Balkan wars of the 20th Century, the rise of Ataturk and the great population movements in the early 1920s. Parts 2 and 3 are availab
- Author: Tony Curzon Price
- Tags: Europe, #Migrated, Greece, ideas, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:19, #appended-excerpt

In this hour-long informal conversation, Terence Mitchison provides the historian's background to the modern Greek state - from Venetian/Ottoman contestation to the Balkan wars of the 20th Century, the rise of Ataturk and the great population movements in the early 1920s. Parts 2 and 3 are available [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/terence-mitchison-tony-curzon-price/modern-greek-history-podcast-parts-2-and-3).