Who Owns Greece’s Private Forests?

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Private forests exist across Greece, and some cover extensive areas. Their ownership is rooted in a legal framework dating back to the early years of the modern Greek state, when authorities first had to distinguish between public and private forests inherited from the Ottoman period.

A royal decree issued in 1836 established the criteria for recognizing private forest ownership. Under its provisions, forests could be considered private if they had been transferred in accordance with Ottoman legal procedures and could be shown to have been privately owned before the start of the Greek War of Independence.

Forests located within large private estates, known as chifliks, were also recognized as private property, even when they were not explicitly listed in the estate’s title deeds, provided that they fell within its boundaries.