Which of the following was the reason as to why the nationalist Greeks got the support of the West European nations?

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They were fighting against the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

They had sympathies for ancient Greek culture.

Greece is considered the cradle of European civilization.

All of the above

answer is D.

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The Nationalist Greeks got the support of the West European nations because they were fighting against the Muslim Ottoman Empire. They sympathised with the traditions of ancient Greece because Greece is considered the cradle of European civilization. Since the fifteenth century, Greece had been a component of the Ottoman Empire. Greece became a sovereign nation in 1832 due to the Treaty of Constantinople. The Greeks fought in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) to free Greece from the Ottoman Empire. Greece received letters of help from various faraway Greeks and several West Europeans who had inclinations towards old Greek culture.

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