Greek Parliament Hosts - The Unknown Front of the Balkan Wars

IN ENGLISH

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarianism and Democracy is staging an exhibition titled "The unknown front of the Balkan Wars: The administrative incorporation of the New Lands", which focuses on another, lesser-known struggle of that era which commenced in tandem with the liberation and annexation of the new "new lands".

Photographs, newspapers, administrative decisions, official correspondence, tables and charts of the times are contained in the exhibition, which outlines the difficulties, the achievements but also the problems of Greek administration in its effort for smooth incorporation of the populations of Macedonia, Epirus, Crete, and Samos, the islands of the northeastern Aegean and Thrace into the state mechanism.

The narration of the exhibition begins with a historical review of the military, diplomatic and political events of the 1912-1922 decade through the fundamental areas of concern to the country's administrative mechanism, the recording of the populations, the administrative organization and its staffing, education and the economy.

The material comes from the National History Museum, the Historic and Diplomatic Archives of the Foreign Ministry, the Historic Archives of Macedonia and Thrace, the 'Eleftherios Venizelos' National Research and Studies Foundation, the Library of Parliament, the Gennadeios Library, and private collections for all over Greece where important documents of the country's history are preserved.amna

The exhibition will run through the end of May, and is open to the public on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Foundation's exhibition hall (14 Amalias Boulevard) off Syntagma Square. (AMNA)

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