Ka cika wannan magana: A farkon shekarun nan, yawancin ƙasar Hellas tana ƙarƙashin sarautar Daular Ottoman, kamar yadda ta kasance tun shekara ta 1453, duk da yawan tawaye. A farkon 1821, wata ƙungiya ta asiri da ake kira Filiki Eteria ta haifar da yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa waɗanda, tare da albarkar tutar Girka da shelar tayar da hankali daga Bishop Germanos na Patras a ranar 25 ga Maris, ya nuna farkon juyin juya hali. Tashin ya samu nasarar kafa kafa a Peloponnese,
kama Tripolitsa a watan Satumbar 1821, kuma ya sami nasara a Crete, Macedonia da tsakiyar Girka.