philhellenes

Noun

philhellene (plural philhellenes)

1. A lover of Greece or Greek culture.
2. (historical) Specifically, a supporter of Greek independence, especially during the Greek war of independence in 1821-29.
   • Some historians have suggested that modern ‘humanitarian intervention’ began with the philhellenes in Greece in the 1820.2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 95

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