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Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app. Hello, my friends, Takui here, and welcome back to another episode of the History of Everything podcast.

Hello, my friends, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Greek War of Independence.

Yeah, honestly, what I talk about varying different independence wars, that could easily

be an entire series on, well, I could do this on Patreon, I could do that on here, I could do

that pretty much anywhere, because the amount of places in this world that have achieved

some degree of independence is quite immense.

And of course, we have to remember when talking about this that there's

the common joke on the internet, that, ah, yes, there's like, what, 50-something countries, I think,

that all celebrate an Independence Day from the United Kingdom, which is in and of itself

absolutely hilarious. Dark when looking at history, but also hilarious.

But for today's story, my friends, we are going to be talking about the Greek War of Independence,

also commonly known as the Greek Revolution, something that was a successful war waged by the Greeks

to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire, this being in a war from

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