| THE LONDON PROTOCOL was drawn up by an ambassadorial conference: Greece, south of a line from the Gulf of Volo to the Gulf of Arta, with Negroponte (Euboea) and the Cyclades (but without Crete) was to be an autonomous, tributary state, under a prince (not to be chosen from the ruling families of Britain, France, or Russia). | 1 |
| The London conference decided that Greece should be given complete independence, but the frontier was moved back to the line Aspropotamos–Gulf of Lamia, that is, almost to the Gulf of Corinth. This decision was embodied in a new London protocol (Feb. 3, 1830), which the Greeks rejected as inadequate. The powers chose Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as prince, but he declined the offer on the grounds that the frontiers of the new state were too restricted. Capo d'Istria ruled the state in dictatorial fashion until his assassination in 1831. | 2 |
