Rome now turned its attentions to one of the Greek kingdoms, the Seleucid Empire, in the east.
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 provided the first potential alliance for the Greek kingdom.
In ancient times it was a Greek kingdom and its greatest leader was Alexander The Great.
There he remained until 1886, when he moved permanently to Athens in the independent Greek kingdom.
The song begins in the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia:
In the end however, Thessaly would be incorporated into the Greek kingdom in 1881.
Land reform represented the first real test for the new Greek kingdom.
After the establishment of the Greek kingdom Dimitrios chose to remain outside the political and military honors.
Hostilities ceased in June 1854 and the rebel leaders returned to the Greek kingdom.
Botsaris continued to serve in the Greek kingdom until his death in Athens on 13 November 1853.