How did the Dark Ages end in Greece?
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Actually, the Dark Ages were an era that was not experienced by people living in the area that now is modern Greece.

The Dark Ages are considered to begin when the (Western) Roman Empire has completely lost its power-that is around 470 a.d. By that time, the Roman Empire had split in two (after the rule of Theodosius around 380 a.d.) in Western and Eastern parts. While the western part was overwhelmed by the barbaric invasions and the internal lack of organization, the Eastern part, better known as the Byzantine empire, thrived for another 1000 years.

Greece was part of the Byzantine empire at the time. The byzantine empire by 700 had strayed away from its roman past and adopted a Greek-orthodox culture. So, the era of the dark ages was rather an era of prosperity for Greece at that time.

The equivalent of the Dark Ages in the region of Greece could be said to start after the fall of the byzantine empire, when the Ottoman rule practically stopped all cultural activity, at least in the mainland. Greece did not experience the Enlightenment along with the rest of the European countries. This came rather later. Most scholars and upper-class merchants had left for other countries, where they formed prospering communities. It was around the 1750's when one could say that the Greek "dark age" ends, with the introduction of the "greek" enlightenment. At around that time and inspired by the rise of the "nation-state" concept in other countries, greek emigres get themselves engaged in a process of discovering and re-inventing their past and roots, with the utmost aim of liberating greece from Ottoman rule. Their ideas and writings were made known back to people in Greece, and provided an ideology background to support the idea of a revolutionary uprising to send the Ottomans away from Greece. This became possible in 1828, when the seven year war that followed the 1821 revolution ended with Greece having established herself as a small nation-state.

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