Before the establishment of the Modern Greek state, the link between ancient and modern Greeks was emphasized by the scholars of Greek Enlightenment especially by Rigas Feraios. In his "Political Constitution", he addresses to the nation as "the people descendant of the Greeks". The modern Greek state was created in 1829, when the Greeks liberated a part of their historic homelands, Peloponnese, from the Ottoman Empire. The large Greek diaspora and merchant class were instrumental in transmitting the ideas of western romantic nationalism and philhellenism, which together with the conception of Hellenism, formulated during the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire, formed the basis of the Diafotismos and the current conception of Hellenism. COUNT 4
QSN1 From what era is the Rigas Feraios believed to be a part of ? ANS1 Greek Enlightenment QSN2 When was the Greek state of modern times birthed into exsistence ?  ANS2 The modern Greek state was created in 1829, QSN3 What did Greeks do that caused  the formation of the new state ? ANS3 the Greeks liberated a part of their historic homelands, Peloponnese, from the Ottoman Empire QSN4 What foundation was laid that is the demographics of Modern Greek Enlightenment Era ? ANS4 instrumental in transmitting the ideas of western romantic nationalism and philhellenism, which together with the conception of Hellenism,