The history, which has been accepted as a separate science in the social sciences since the 19th century, cannot be considered apart from politics, as Ranke has stated that it contains both art and science elements. Because without the knowledge of the past, it is impossible to understand today. For this reason, history and politics are accepted as two close and even dependent sciences. History, which shapes politics by using past knowledge, is also rebuilt under the influence of politics. The dominant historical interpretations of political governments have allowed the history to take different readings from time to time, or to be reinterpreted in the monopoly of power. Especially in the nation-state building process, each state strengthened its ties with history in order to create a national identity and consciousness, and was directly involved in the science of history and historiography. At this point, as history has shaped politics, politics has shaped history after a while. As a result, nation-states have begun to integrate the official understanding of history, shaped according to their ideology, to all its citizens and their structures of thought through education.
In this article, it has been tried to examine the effects of political processes that have changed in Greece in the last twenty years on Greek historiography and how they have shaped historiography. The article will be exemplified by the Greek sources and publications in which Greek politics progressed in parallel with Greek historiography.
Keywords: Greece, Modern Greek History, Greek-Turkish Relations, Historiography, Politics
DOI Number: 10.9737/hist.2020.965
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