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147th Video of ROUNDS TUBE describes about the 200th Anniversary of Glorious Greece being celebrated annually on 25, March. Each year Greeks all over the world celebrate Greek Independence Day, which is a national holiday in Greece. This year 25th March 2021, marks the 200th anniversary of Greek Independence Day. This is when Greeks remember their long struggle against the Ottoman Empire, an effort that eventually leads to Greece’s independence. Thisday, in fact, marks the beginning of the Greek War for Independence, not the end. For hundreds of years, much of Greece had been taken over by the Ottoman Empire until the 1820’s when much of the country eventually overcame Turkish rule. Several factors contributed to the Turks coming to Greece, including the Byzantine Empire, which ruled for around 1100 years and then began to decline. However, the Ottoman Empire’s push to Greece eventually began when they captured Constantinople in 1453. Once the capital of the Byzantine Empire was taken