DR. CHLOROS, Waldverhältnisse Griechenlands. Thesis for the
Doctorate at Munich. 1884. 45 pp.
ANDERLIND, Mittheilungen über die Waldverhältnisse Griechenlands.
Allgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung. 1884.
The history of the country has been so unfortunate, and political
conditions so unsettled that only lately efforts at improvement in
economic conditions could hope to receive attention. For centuries after
Greece had become a Roman province (146 B.C.), it changed rulers,
Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians following each other, until,
between 1460 and 1473, it came under the Turkish yoke. As a result of
an insurrection started in 1821, freedom, but no settled order as yet,
was attained in 1829 through the assistance of Great Britain, France and
Russia, and the elected kings, Otho (of Bavaria), Alfred (of England)
and George (of Denmark) successively tried to secure social order and
efficient constitutional government.
By the time this new era had arrived there was probably little valuable
forest worthy of the name left, except in the inaccessible mountain
districts.