1. Panagiotis Chiotis, Σειράς ιστορικών απομνημονευμάτων, τόμ. Γ΄ [Historical Memoirs Series, vol. 3] (Corfu: Government Printing House, 1863), 573 (quoted), 584, 586; J.-P. Bellaire, Précis des opérations générales de la Division française du Levant (Paris, 1805), 11.
2. Christine Philliou, Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011), 49–51.
3. Rigas Velestinlis, Νέα πολιτική διοίκησις των κατοίκων της Ρούμελης, της Μικράς Ασίας, των Μεσογείων Νήσων και της Βλαχομπογδανίας, ed. P. M. Kitromilides (vol. 5 in the series Ρήγα Βελεστινλή. Άπαντα τα σωζόμενα [Rigas Velestinlis: Complete Surviving Works]) (Athens: Hellenic Parliament, 2000), with introduction, commentary and appendices, including the French text of the 1793 constitution. Hereafter: ‘Rigas’. Substantial excerpts in English translation can be found in Richard Clogg (ed. and trans.), The Movement for Greek Independence, 1770–1821: A Collection of Documents (London: Macmillan, 1976), 149–63.
4. Rigas, 48 (Constitution, article 7); 33 (Preface); 45 (Constitution, articles 1–2).
5. Rigas, 35, 119.
6. Rigas, 46–7 (Constitution, article 4); 67 (Constitution, article 109).
7. Rigas, 44 (Rights of Man, article 35); 70–71.
8. Rigas, 33–5 (Preface); 73–7 (‘Thourios’ [‘War song’]).
9. Adamantios Korais, Άπαντα τα πρωτότυπα έργα, τόμ. Α΄ [Complete Original Works, Vol. 1], ed. G. Valetas (Athens: Dorikos, 1964), 40. Hereafter: Korais, Complete.
10. Cited in Korais, Complete, 44–5; Clogg (ed. and trans.), Movement, 56–64.
11. Korais, Complete, 54, 56–7.
12. Korais, Complete, 1 (‘Autobiography’, 1829).
13. See further Stratos Myrogiannis, The Emergence of a Greek Identity (1700–1821) (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012), 142–50.
14. Korais, Complete, 65–6 (‘Martial trumpet-call’, 1801).
15. Korais, Complete, 853 (‘Improvised thoughts I’).
16. Mémoire sur l’état actuel de la civilisation dans la Grèce, par Coray [Korais] (Paris, 1803), photographic reprint, National Foundation for Neohellenic Research, Athens (1983). For an English translation see Adamantios Koraes, ‘Report on the present state of civilization in Greece’, in E. Kedourie (ed.), Nationalism in Asia and Africa (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), 153–88.
17. Mémoire, 1; Koraes, ‘Report’, 153.
18. Mémoire, 33, 37, 52; Koraes, ‘Report’, 169, 172, 179.
19. Mémoire, 33, 37, 52, 63, 65; Koraes, ‘Report’, 180, 183–4, 186, 186 (quoted).
20. Korais, Complete, 8, 9 (‘Autobiography’, 1829).
21. Ανωνύμου του Έλληνος, Ελληνική νομαρχία, ήτοι λόγος περί ελευθερίας [Anonymous the Hellene, Hellenic Nomarchy, or Discourse on Liberty], ed. G. Valetas (Athens: Vivlioekdotiki, 1957; originally published in 1806). Hereafter: ‘Anonymous’. For a translated excerpt see Clogg (ed. and trans.), Movement, 106–17.
22. Anonymous, 52, 82–3 (quoted), 218.
23. Anonymous, 197, 200, 202, 205, 217, 219.
24. Anonymous, 78–82 (81 quoted), 210–17.
25. Anonymous, 205–7, see also 136 and 217.
26. Anonymous, 150–4, 163–82 (163 quoted), 201, 204 (quoted).
27. Kostas Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State, trans. Jacob Moe (London: Hurst, 2018; Greek original published in 2013), 41.
28. Lord Byron, Complete Poetical Works, ed. Jerome McGann, 7 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980–93), vol. 1, 330–2.
29. Henry Holland, Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the Years 1812–1813 (London: Longman, 1815), 530–31.
30. The fullest early accounts are Ioannis Philemon, Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Φιλικής Εταιρίας [Historical Essay on the Friendly Society] (Nafplion, 1834) [hereafter: Philemon, Friendly], and the ‘Memoirs of Emmanouil Xanthos’ (1845), translated in Clogg (ed. and trans.), Movement, 182–200. See also K. Svolopoulos, ‘Η σύσταση της Φιλικής Εταιρείας. Μια επαναπροσέγγιση’ [‘The establishment of the Friendly Society: A reappraisal’], Ta Istorika 35 (2001), 283–98.
31. Philemon, Friendly, 155 (quoted), 172, 173.
32. Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children, 49–51.
33. Philemon, Friendly, 128. Compare the famous saying of Massimo d’Azeglio, after the achievement of Italian independence, ‘L’Italia è fatta. Restano da fare gli italiani’ [‘Italy has been made. Now it remains to make Italians’].
34. Vasilis Kremmydas, Η ελληνική επανάσταση του 1821. Τεκμήρια, αναψηλαφήσεις, ερμηνείες [The Greek Revolution of 1821: Documents, Investigations, Interpretations] (Athens: Gutenberg, 2016), 38–9, 49–53, 58.