What did the Greek Revolution of 1821 achieve? And why should it take the Greeks four centuries to free themselves from the Ottoman yoke? Well, it wasn’t for a lack of trying. One main reason why Greece’s many attempts to expel the Turks had failed, is that a free Greece (a return to the glory of Byzantium and the peak of civilization) was not in the best interests of the European powers of the time. England, France, Germany were afraid of losing control of the imperial and colonial system in the face of Greek progress. They knew what a free and idealistic Greece could achieve. They feared a glorious Greek Orthodox return to superpower status. As a result, when Greece was freed from Ottoman slavery in 1821, the Royal European powers of Germany, England, and France persecuted the heroes of the Greek revolution. https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-greek-revolution-of-1821-remains-incomplete/