How did the greek war of independence mobilised nationalist feelings among the educated elite?
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(i) Greece had been a part of the Ottoman Empire since the 15th Century. (ii) Struggle for independence began in 1821.
(iii) Greece got support from Greeks living in exile and West-Europeans who had sympathies for ancient Greek culture.
(iv) Poets and artists lauded Greece as the cradle of European civilization and mobilized public opinion to support its fight against Muslim Empire.
(v) The English Poet-Lord Byron, organized funds, fought in a war and died of fever in 1824.
(vi) The Treaty of Constantinople of 1832 recognized Greece as an independent nation
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The growth of revolutionary nationalism in Europe motivated the Greeks to start a struggle for independence in 1821. Greece had been a part of the ottoman empire since the fifteenth century. The struggle inspired the educated elite class of Europe and filled them with nationalistic zeal. Literature mobilized public opinion to support struggle against a Muslim empire. Greek citizens who were living in exile supported them, and poets and artists lauded Greece as the cradle of European civilization. As a result, nationalistic sentiments were invoked among the educated elites of Greece like Lord Bryon, an English poet, who raised funds and even participated in the war.