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Athens, Constantinople, “Istambol”: Urban Paradigms and Nineteenth-Century Greek National Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2015
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Your nostalgia has created
A nonexistent country, with laws
Alien to earth and man.
George Seferis, The Return of the Exile (Keeley and Sherrard, 1981, pp. 224-25)
The history of Greece's first century as an independent nation-state is in many ways a history of the interplay among urban space, nationalism, and identity. It is also a history of nostalgia: Western European nostalgia for one specific past, Greek nostalgia for another, and the tension between the two.
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