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'The European concert, 1897'. Satire relating to the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. Also called the Thirty Days' War, the conflict began after Greece's nationalist government declared war on the Ottoman Empire after a rebellion broke out in January 1897 amongst the Greek population on the Turkish controlled island of Crete. The conflict yielded no territorial gains for Greece and ended with a peace brokered by the major European powers. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 9th May 1897.