Talk:Principality of Samos

Why was the pretence of Ottomon suzereinty kept up and why was it so common?
Whilst I recognise, of course, that the Principality of Samos was to all intents and purposes independent, nonetheless it still recognised Ottoman suzerainy and paid tribute. I've noticed his was quite a widespread phenomenom with the territories agitating for freedom from Ottoman Domination: with Serbia and Romania having tributary status until 1878, Bulgaria until 1908, and Egypt and Sudan were technically parts of the Ottoman Empire until 1914, and Cyprus and Bosnia were de jure Ottoman Provinces until 1914 and 1908 respectively, despite their de facto control by Britain and Austria, respectively, not to mention places like the Cretan State and the Khediviate of Egypt.

What I'm wondering is, why was this done, and why was it so widespread? Why was de facto control of these places preferred to de jure annexation, which would have happened in most other situations. Why was there so much trouble taken to not only accomodate the Ottoman Sultan, but to seemingly not offend him?JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Georgios Georgiadis (acting)
The existing link to this person is apparently misleading. According to this article the person was acting as prince in 1873, but the date of birth of the linked person is given as 1866. A child cannot be the appointed governor even of a small island. Hajo-Muc (talk) 10:10, 29 November 2015 (UTC)