{"id":21824,"date":"2012-07-29T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ikaria.ch\/?page_id=21824"},"modified":"2024-04-12T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:15:50","slug":"free-state-of-ikaria-one-hundred-years-since-its-founding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ursula.ikaria.ch\/en\/free-state-of-ikaria-one-hundred-years-since-its-founding\/","title":{"rendered":"Free State of Ikaria: One hundred years since its founding"},"content":{"rendered":"
On July 17, 1912, the Ikariot Freedom Movement managed to drive the Turkish guards off the island and thus free themselves from the Ottoman Empire after almost four hundred years of occupation.<\/p>\n
The neighboring islands of Fournoi-Korseon joined Ikaria. Due to the raging Balkan wars, it was impossible for the leaders of the revolution to communicate with the other liberated Greeks and so the “Free State of Ikaria” was proclaimed.<\/p>\n
Physician Ioannis Malachias was the short-lived nation’s first president. For five months Ikaria remained an independent state, with its own armed troops, state flag, stamps, stamps and anthem. Some of these relics can be admired in the small folk museum in Agios Kyrikos.<\/p>\n<\/div>
In any case, these five months of freedom were a difficult time. There were food shortages and residents were left without connections to the outside world and without regular transport and communications services. The island was also in constant danger of being swallowed up by Italian dominance in the Aegean. In November 1912, an agreement was reached with free Greece and the decision was made to immediately annex the country. Ikaria signed the treaty and became part of Greece for 100 years, according to the agreement.<\/p>\n