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Greek foreign policy towards the Armenian Question: a historical survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

I. K. Hassiotis*
Affiliation:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Abstract

To Richard Clogg, a small token of auld acquaintance

The historical factors that have influenced the course of Greek–Armenian political relations from the mid-nineteenth century up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union (and the subsequent official recognition by Greece of the independent Republic of Armenia in 1991) are explored. In addition, those factors that have caused – and may well cause again, at least in the foreseeable future – the Greek and Armenian positions either to converge or to diverge are identified.

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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2012

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29 Cf. the promotion of Bulgarian territorial claims in the wider region of Ottoman Macedonia and their connection with the Armenian Question in the writings of Francis de Pressensé: Manifestations franco-anglo-italiennes pour l’Arménie et la Macédoine (Paris 1904) 27-42, 83-4, 90-4, 314. There was no notable Greek presence at those events, in which, nevertheless, some of the participants were distinguished philhellenes.

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84 Chrysanthopoulos, Caucasus Chronicles, 16ff., 59ff., 162ff. Since 1998 a number of Armenian officers and servicemen are being trained in Greek military academies: Ramazian, Ιστορία των αρμενο-ελληνικών στρατιωτικών σχέσεων, 244.

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