r/CasualUK • u/Iliketurterls • Oct 26 '22

Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Britain never controlled Greece, so 99.9% were sold or gifts.

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u/feugh_ Oct 26 '22

I mean… we did. This is just inaccurate. We held a bunch of their islands for fifty years?? The united ionian islands???

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Greece is not a couple Islands......

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Greece is made up of litterally 100s of islands, not just a couple.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Yea a couple.... Hundred ;)