 This work was the first and only volume by Daniel Philippidis and Grigorios Konstantas , and their intention was not only to define and describe the lands that were populated by Greeks , but also to describe the current social developments in the wider region . With this work they gave a precise delimitation of European Hellas ( Greece ) of that time , a few decades before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 ) . According to their description this area would not only include present @-@ day Greece , but also Albania , the Republic of Macedonia and the southern half of Bulgaria , an area that included all the areas ruled by the Macedonian Kings , in addition to those of classical Greece incorporating most of the Orthodox populations of the Balkan peninsula , which was during that time under Ottoman rule . 
