page_title: Epirus Revolt of 1854
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Epirus Revolt of 1854 / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Greek General Theodoros Grivas Ελληνικά: Προσωπογραφία του Οπλαρχηγού και Στρατηγού Θεόδωρου Γρίβα
context_page_description: The 1854 revolt in Epirus was one of the most important of a series of Greek uprisings that occurred in the Ottoman-occupied Greek world during that period. When the Crimean War broke out, many Epirote Greeks, with tacit support from the Greek state, revolted against the Ottoman rule. Although this movement was supported by distinguished military personalities, the correlation of forces doomed it from the start, leading to its suppression after a few months.
context_section_description: When the Crimean War broke out between the Ottoman Empire and Russia, many Greeks felt that it was an opportunity to gain lands inhabited by Greeks but not included in the independent Kingdom of Greece. The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) was still fresh in their minds, as well as the Russian intervention that had helped secure Greek independence. Furthermore, Greeks had traditionally looked to help from fellow-Orthodox Russia.
  Although the official Greek state, under severe diplomatic and military pressure from the British and French (allies of the Ottomans), refrained from actively entering the conflict, a number of uprisings were organized in Epirus, Thessaly, Crete, with support from individuals and groups within independent Greece.
caption: Field Marshal Theodoros Grivas.
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