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	Megali Idea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Megali Idea implied the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as ancient geographer Strabo wrote, with a Greek world extending west from Sicily, to Mikra Asia (Asia Minor) and Euxenus Pontus (Black Sea) to the east, and from Macedonia and Epirus, north, to Crete and Cyprus to the south.
		The Great Idea encompassed a desire to bring these groups into the Greek state; specifically in the territories of Epirus, Thessaly, Macedonia, the Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus, parts of Anatolia, and the city of Constantinople, that would replace Athens as the capital.
		Although the Great Idea ceased to be a driving force behind Greek foreign policy after the Treaty of Lausanne, some remnants continued to influence Greek foreign policy throughout the remainder of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megali_Idea (638 words)

	Megali Idea - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He drew the all first map of the Megali Idea in the year 1791 in Romania, let her in the year 1796 print and distributed her afterwards first in Vienna, later in the griechischsprachigen areas of the osmanischen realm.
		Most important supporter of the “large idea” was a Greek head of state Eleftherios Venizelos, which was able to actually expand the Greek territory in the Balkans wars of 1912-13.
		After the victory of the Entente in the First World War and the contract by Sèvres the implementation of the “large idea” seemed to have moved a large piece closer: The northern part of Epirus, the islands Imbros and Tenedos as well as Thrakien (except Konstantinopel) were awarded Greece.
	cleverpedia.com /Megali_Idea (537 words)

	Idea Preschool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megali Idea - Megali Idea (ÎÎµÎ³Î¬Î»Î· ÎÎ´ÎÎ±) (Greek for "Great Idea") was an irredentist concept of Greek ethnic nationalism expressing the goal of establishing a Greek state that would encompass all ethnic Greeks.
		Megale Idea implied the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as ancient geographer Strabo wrote, with a Greek world...
		The basic idea of Ezenhemmer is that everybody would feel a lot better and be more in harmony with the rest of the world if we began to be a little bit more cheerful and playful instead of engaging ourselves in disputes with our...
	edu.vvvvvv3.com /ideapreschool.html (650 words)

	Greek nationalism, the "Megale Idea" and Venizelism to 1923
		Greek nationalism has the "Megale Idea," the counterpart of Serbia's "Nacertanije." Literally translated as the "great idea" or "grand idea," the Megale Idea implies the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as a homeland for all the Greeks of the Mediterranean and Balkan world.
		On the verge of the greatest achievement of the Megale Idea, the loss of Anatolia was a stunning defeat.
		The royalists, on the other hand, kept the allegiance of older rural smallholders who gained nothing from the land reform; of the old-fashioned shopkeepers of Athens, who were threatened by imports and new industries; and of Greece's small organized labor movement, whose members watched wages fall thanks to the influx of refugees.
	www.lib.msu.edu /sowards/balkan/lect14.htm (4026 words)

	(MEGALI) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide
		In his book, "Megali Idea", Greek historian Panayotis Kayas gives this answer to the question: "In every period, Greek political and social leaders believed that Greece should have a 'National Ideology' for the country to survive.
		In short, 'Megali Idea' is the soul of Greek domestic and foreign policy.
		The name of this 'national ideology' was 'Megali Idea.' In this manner, when the country's political, military, religius and social leaders pushed everything else to one side and focused on this objective, this led to the emergence of 'Megali Idea'- oriented activities within state institutions.
	www.tallarmeniantale.com /megali.htm (1269 words)

	2003 On the Proposed Granting of Macedonian Citizenship
		In 1920-1922, Greece attempted to use the Christian populations in Turkey and as a result, thousands of refugees became the victims of that "Megali Idea" policy.
		At the same time, they are trying to use minorities in neighboring countries as the means to implement their own expansionist policies, "Megali Idea" style.
		"Megali Idea" - "Great Idea": The expansionistic vision of the Greek policy at the beginning of the 20th century and during the Greek-Turkish war 1920-1922 for an enlarged Greek Kingdom.
	www.florina.org /html/2003/2003_mac_citizenship.html (478 words)

	Megali Idea \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Megali Idea (griechisch: Μεγάλη Ιδέα) bedeutet wörtlich "große Idee".
		Der erste, der für die Megali Idea arbeitete und die erste Megali Idea-Karte veröffentlichte, war der intellektuelle Revolutionär Rigas Ferreos.
		Enosis und die Megali Idea kamen kurzzeitig während des Zypernkonfliktes wieder auf.
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Megali_Idea (490 words)

	History of Greece
		The Megali Idea (Great Idea), a vision to unite all Greeks living within the borders of the declining Ottoman Empire with the newly independent Greek State, exerted strong influence on the early Greek state.
		The Greeks were defeated by Turkish forces led by Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) and were forced to withdraw in the summer of 1922.
		Smyrna was sacked by the Turks, and more than 1.3 million Greek refugees from Turkey poured into Greece, creating enormous challenges for the Greek economy and society and effectively ending the Megali Idea.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/History_of_Greece.html (1308 words)

	Halloween Idea
		History of ideas - The history of ideas is a field of research in history and in related fields dealing with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time.
		Megale Idea implies the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as ancient geographer Strabon wrote, with a Greek world extended west from Sicily, to Mikra Asia and Euxenus Pontus (Black Sea) to the east, and from Macedonia and Epirus, north, to Crete and Cyprus to the south.
		It is filled with ideas that will help you haunt your house with bootiful decorations, serve sinisterly delectable treats, play bone chilling games halloween idea and make fiendishly fun crafts halloween idea and party favors.
	www.world-decoration.com /halloweenidea.html (840 words)

	Kristina O'Donnelly (no date) Clarion of Midnight - Megali Idea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hers is the Megali Idea of taking over the Government of Turkey, remold it in the glorious spirit of Byzantium, and then appropriate Byzantium's former territories.
		Her dark beauty is timeless, exotic, and beguiling, men who are the movers and shakers of the land, are mere dominoes in her hand, and she is close to realizing her golden dream.
		In the background, is Burhan’s (now the Turkish Minister of Interior and steering a dangerous course between extremist factions) personal struggle as his dark secret (his illegitimate son) is on the verge of being revealed to his wife, Ariadne.
	www.getcited.org /pub/103414540 (425 words)

	Idea Telcel
		Innate idea - In the fields of philosophy and psychology, an innate idea is a concept or piece of knowledge that is said to be universal in humanity - something one is born with, as opposed to learning through experience.
		It is filled with ideas that will help you haunt your house with bootiful decorations, serve sinisterly delectable treats, play bone chilling games idea telcel and make fiendishly fun crafts idea telcel and party favors.
		Each idea has a supply list that tells the reader what materials are needed to complete the activity.
	www.wingspanjournal.com /ideatelcel.html (945 words)

	Curtain Idea
		With graded projects curtain idea and skills - from quick curtain idea and easy "no-sew" ideas to country sheers curtain idea and more traditional elaborate swags curtain idea and tails -- The Encyclopedia of Curtains is the one indispensable curtain making guide.
		Also included are instructions on the hanging curtain idea and storage of curtains curtain idea and full sections on many other soft furnishings such as blinds, beds, tablecloths curtain idea and cushions.
		They are driving business trends and as the knowledge to Launching a winner or are many inspiring window treatments has teamed with gorgeous color has never before, creating hauntingly beautiful and faith contributes powerfully to gauge the characteristics of astonishing vision and adolescent behavioral problem or her husband, a systematic approach.
	www.world-decoration.com /curtainidea.html (875 words)

	Megali Idea - Phantis
		Megali Idea (Μεγάλη Ιδέα) (Greek for "Great Idea") is a concept of Greek nationalism expressing the goal of establishing a Greek state that encompasses all ethnic Greeks.
		Although the Great Idea ceased to be a driving force behind Greek foreign policy after the Treaty of Lausanne, remnants remain.
		Greece only recently, for example, recognised the present Greco-Albanian border (and, implicitly, Albanian rule over northern Epirus); Greece also sponsored a pro-enosis military coup on Cyprus in 1974 leading to the de-facto partition of the island of Cyprus into Greek and Turkish sectors.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php?title=Megali_Idea&printable=yes (301 words)

	Bedroom Idea
		Megali Idea - Megali Idea (ÎÎµÎ³Î¬Î»Î· ÎÎ´ÎÎ±) (Greek for "Great Idea") is a concept of Greek nationalism expressing the goal of establishing a Greek state that encompasses all ethnic Greeks.
		New Idea Society (band) - The New Idea Society is a band formed by Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky and good friend Mike Law.
		There's something about bedrooms bedroom idea and bathrooms that gives people the confidence to be a little daring bedroom idea and experimental, bedroom idea and "101 Ideas for Upstairs is filled with in-depth advice on how to create a look you'll love.
	www.wingspanjournal.com /bedroomidea.html (1110 words)

	Megali Idea - Wikipedia
		Megali Idea (letterlijk: het grote idee) is de Griekse visie van een Griekenland dat alle door etnisch Grieken bewoonde gebieden omvat.
		In 1923 werd het Megali Idea in de oorlog met Turkije een bloedig halt toegeroepen, waarna het voorlopig opgegeven werd.
		Sinds Griekenland bij de EU is aangesloten, is het Megali Idea taboe geworden.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megali_Idea (193 words)

	NEWS
		Later, with a number of expansionist wars that served to fulfill the plans of the Megali-idea (The grand idea: a notion where extreme Greek nationalism and religious intolerance are intertwined, another large group was added, the Slays.
		As a consequence, every immigrant child attending Greek schools, at any level, is subjected to a process of indoctrination with the idea of the superiority and the uniqueness of the Greek culture and race.
		Comparing the Greek economic achievements with those of the neighboring countries, thus exploiting its neighbor’s misfortune with their communist experience, further enhances this campaign, Albania and the other countries of the Balkans who went through some fifty years of communism, for the time being, cannot face to this Greek challenge.
	www.aacl.com /Greek_falsedemocracy.html (1113 words)

	Chapter 17
		The inability to mourn the collapse of the Byzantine empire is expressed as a political ideology, found in the Megali Idea.
		The Megali Idea and the idealization of Hellenism, on the one hand, and the psychology of the remaining victims, on the other, are the 'unseen' powers which are imbued in modem Greek group identity, and they complicate political negotiations, create psychological resistances to solutions, and make negotiations with the Turks difficul
		The Megali Idea aimed at the liberation of the 'unredeemed brethren' in the old Hellenic territories.
	www.turksforum.nl /informatie/grieks/tr-grieks_08.htm (7527 words)

	Greece After the First Constitution, 1844-62 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		Kolettis also originated the Megali Idea (Great Idea), the concept that Greeks must be reunited by annexing Ottoman territory adjacent to the republic.
		Otto's inability to fulfill the Megali Idea was a major cause of his downfall.
		The Megali Idea influenced all of Greek foreign policy through the nineteenth century.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/greece/greece_history_after_the_first_constitution_1844_62.html (427 words)

	Greek Irredentist Claims to Asia Minor
		Applied in its simplest connotation, the Megali Idea is the goal of reestablishing a Greek state as a homeland for all the Greeks of the Mediterranean and the Balkan world.
		While the Megali Idea carried, with it, a nationalist flavor, it was not merely a sentimental outgrowth of nationalist tendencies; "it was, in one of its aspects, centuries old and deeply rooted in the Greeks’ national and religious consciousness."
		Indeed, the Megali Idea was a uniquely Greek attitude and even amidst times of Greek sympathy, it often conflicted with the interests of the European Concert as well as with Greece’s Balkan neighbors.
	ase.tufts.edu /hemispheres/2000/seth_blacksburg_2000.htm (8560 words)

	Greece Megali Idea, Greeks with Megali Idea, Ottoman Empire in Crete and Greece, Greece without Ottoman Empire in Crete
		The irredentism of the Megali Idea, which had remained a strong force in Greek society since independence, gained new momentum from the liberation of territory surrounding Greece and from changes in Great Power policy in the second half of the nineteenth century.
		The results were conflict with the Ottoman Empire in Crete and with the Slavs in Macedonia, along with territorial gains in Thessaly and Arta.
		Perceiving Macedonia as an essential element of the Megali Idea, Greece held vehemently to its claims, first against the Ottoman Empire and then against other Balkan nations.
	greece.russiansabroad.com /country_page.aspx?page=54 (516 words)

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		The Megali Idea or "Great Idea" of a new Hellenic empire that would encircle the Aegean Sea was born along with the Greeks' movement for independence in 1821.
		It seemed that Venizelos had achieved the victory of the Megali Idea, but it soon proved to be a pyrrhic one.
		As Greeks, the ministers had shared in the heritage of the Megali Idea and were painfully aware that nothing save a Greek occupation of Constantinople would revive enthusiasm for the royalist cause.
	gencturkler.8m.com /TURKEY/HISTORY/finefrock.html (8670 words)

	Cyprus :: A different approach
		Greece has to accept that it takes two to tango and the nationalistic ideals of the 20's and the Megali idea...
		I really find this idea that Turkey is expansionist hard to understand, be it expansionist relative to other nations (and especially relative to Greece) or be it in absoloute terms.
		In the end the Megali idea was foolish extreme nationalism, gone very badly wrong.
	www.cyprus-forum.com /cyprus409.html (1240 words)

	MEGALİ İDEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yani Megalo İdea Büyük Ülkü; Megali İdea ise Büyük Ülküler demektir.
		Megali İdea için 10 hedefi gerçekleştirmek amacıyla yola çıkılmış.
		Daha sonra Rigas Ferraros adlı bir Rum Megali İdea’nın amaçlarını 10 maddede toplar.
	www.ufukotesi.com /yazigoster.asp?yazi_no=20050843 (281 words)

	OpenHeaven.com - MEGALI?
		Megali is also part of the name of a beach in Greece.
		You are right that Megali part of the name of a beach in Greece and is found in the title of the e-book "Clarion of Midnight," as well.
		I know that you "sensed" that "Megali idea" wasn't it, that it was two words, but no version of the two words thing fits without stretching things a bit beyond credibility.
	www.openheaven.com /forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=10752&get=last (3373 words)

	History of Modern Greece - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The majority of Greeks continued to live under Ottoman rule, and Greeks dreamed of liberating them all and reconstituting a state embracing all the Greek lands, with Constantinople as its capital.
		This was called the Great Idea (Megali Idea), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman rule in Greek-speaking territories, particularly Crete, Thessaly and Macedonia.
		Subsequently more than a million Greeks were expelled from Turkish territory (in exhange 500,000 Turks and a large number of Albanians and Bulgarians were expelled from Greece), and Greece was forced to yield eastern Thrace, Imbros and Tenedos to Turkey.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=13814 (3802 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Megali Idea and the Greek-Turkish War of 1897: The Impact of the Cretan Problem on Greek Irredentism, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amazon.ca: The Megali Idea and the Greek-Turkish War of 1897: The Impact of the Cretan Problem on Greek Irredentism, 1866-1897: Books: Theodore George Tatsios
		The Megali Idea and the Greek-Turkish War of 1897: The Impact of the Cretan Problem on Greek Irredentism, 1866-1897 (Hardcover)
		The purpose of this study is to examine the problem of Greek irredentism during the second half of the ninteenth century, especially the period from 1866 to 1898.
	www.amazon.ca /Megali-Idea-Greek-Turkish-War-1897/dp/0880330538 (167 words)

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