Geneva and Greece: A friendship in the service of independence

Item

Title

Creator

Museum of Art and History of Geneva

Museum of Philhellenism

Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity

Spatial Coverage

Museum of Art and History of Geneva

Geneva See all items with this value Geneva->Searchculture.gr

Subject - keywords

Geneva

Kapodistrias Ioannis See all items with this value Kapodistrias Ioannis -> Searchculture.gr

Date

15 October 2021–30 January 2022

Date Issued

2021

Abstract

The decisive role of Ioannis Kapodistrias, and his close Swiss friends and ardent philhellenes, Charles Pictet de Rochemont and Jean-Gabriel Eynard, in Geneva's integration into the Swiss Confederation and in the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman yoke.

(Edited and translated description from phmus.org website)