“It was not until our rising that all the Greeks were brought into communication. There were men who knew of no place beyond a mile of their own locality.”

Theodoros Kolokotronis' memoirs (1846), quoted in: Jim Potts (2010) The Ionian Islands and Epirus: A Cultural History, p. 176

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