1922 in Greece

1922
in
Greece

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See also:Other events of 1922
List of years in Greece

The year 1922 was a very important year in the history of modern Greece.[according to whom?] It witnessed the fall of ideas birthed by Hellenism ever since the first days of its struggle for independence. The centenary of which had just been celebrated; more particularly of the idea of a greater Greece, which the name of Eleftherios Venizelos has been so closely associated ever since his first call to power in 1910. From a Balkan power of dominant magnitude, Greece was thrown back into the unenviable position it occupied after the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.