In Chap. 3 , the author tried to lend support to his claim that events of a very remote past, before the 1821 Greek War of Independence, or developments during the revolution itself, impacted on the work of post-revolution authorities. One has to return to the Byzantine and Ottoman periods to understand how custom-law and local power-sharing continued to influence town planning law and practice for several decades after independence. This explains references to the 14th century legal code of ArmenopoulosArmenopoulos or to the visions of national identity of Gemistos PlethonPlethon. Developments briefly listed in the chronological table of Chap. 2 are discussed in some detail. They include embryonic planning initiatives in Europe, Greek national assemblies during the independence war, the first constitutions, international protocols which determined the territory of the new state, and the controversies surrounding the distribution of national lands. Greek independence was secured in the 1827 naval battle of NavarinoNavarino, when the fleets of the Protecting Powers (Great Britain, France and Russia) destroyed the Ottoman fleet. It then received the final seal of international legality in a series of protocols. In the meantime, the government of the country was entrusted to Count Capodistria, a Greek minister of the Russian Tzar (Count Ioannis Kapodistrias (Capo d’Istria) was born in the Greek island of Corfu. Capodistria is the version of his name habitually used in international literature).