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HELLENIKA CHRONIKA

Title: Ελληνικά Χρονικά (Hellēnika chronika).

Years: 1824-1826.

Volumes: 1-3.

Editor: Johann Jakob Mayer (1798-1826).

Publication history: Etos I-III; Jan. 1, 1824-20, Feb. 1826. Ceased publication with no. 15 of v. 3, Feb. 20, 1826.

Edition: Reprinted by K. N. Lebides in 1840.

Subject: Reviews of current affairs, newspaper from Missolonghi.

Notes:  Ελληνικά Χρονικά is a news review of high quality, with printed news about the political (external/internal) and military developments of the Greek War of independence in the years 1824-1826. The issues also contain some local news and a poem by I. Rizos Neroulos, a major intellectual, politician, and protagonist in the Greek War of Independence. Printed in Missolonghi, a major center in the developments of the war of independence. It is an important source for historians of the period, holding a high quality in language, editing, typesetting, etc. 

Online: Available in Psifiothiki—1826 for example: digital.lib.auth.gr/record/141081/files/5147_3.pdf

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