Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon shekarun nan, yawancin Girka suna ƙarƙashin mulkin Daular Ottoman, kamar yadda ya kasance tun 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 Satumba na 1821, kuma ya sami nasara a Crete, Macedonia da tsakiyar Girka.