Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Pakutanga kwemakumi emakore, chikamu chikuru cheGreece chakanga chiri pasi pokutonga kwoUmambo hweOttoman, sezvakanga zvave zvakadaro kubvira muna 1453, pasinei zvapo nokumukira kwaiitika kazhinji kazhinji. Pakuvamba muna 1821, sangano repachivande rainzi Filiki Eteria rakatanga hondo dzinoverengeka idzo, pamwe chete nokuropafadzwa kweflag yechiGiriki uye kuziviswa kwokumukira naMbhishopi Germanos wePatra pana March 25, zvakaratidzira kuvamba kweshanduko. Kumukira kwakabudirira kugadzira nzvimbo muPeloponnese, kutora Tripolitsa
muna September 1821, uye akabudirira muKrete, Makedhonia neCentral Greece.