Military history of Greece

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The military history of Greece is the history of the wars and battles of the Greek people in Greece, the Balkans and the Greek colonies in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea since classical antiquity.

Contents 1 List of military encounters 1.1 Ancient Greece 1.2 Medieval Period 2 Ottoman Period 3 19th century 3.1 20th century 3.2 21st century 4 List of fortifications in Greece 4.1 Medieval period 4.1.1 Byzantine 4.1.2 Frankish & Crusader 4.1.3 Venetian 4.1.4 Ottoman 4.2 Modern 4.2.1 American 4.2.2 British 4.2.3 German (World War II-period) 4.2.4 Greek 4.2.5 Italian (World War II & Dodecanese protectorate) 5 List of Greek military institutions 6 List of Greek military alliances 7 Ancient Greece 7.1 Byzantine 7.2 Modern 8 Notes 9 See also

List of military encounters

Ancient Greece

• Battle of Marathon
• Battle of Syracuse
• Battle of Thermopylae
• Third Sacred War

Medieval Period

• Battle of Dara
• Battle of Callinicum
• Battle of Ad Decimum
• Battle of Tricamarum
• Battle of Taginae
• Battle of Mons Lactarius
• Battle of Yarmuk
• Battle of Nineveh (627)
• Battle of Syllaeum
• Battle of Anchialus
• Battle of Pliska
• Battle of Kleidion
• Battle of Manzikert
• Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
• Battle of Myriokephalon
• Battle of Pelagonia
• Fall of Constantinople

Ottoman Period

• Battle of Vromopigada

19th century

• Battle of Karpenizi
• Battle of Vassilika
• Siege of Missolonghi
• Battle of Phaleron
• Battle at Dervenakia
• Battle of Navarino
• Battle of Petra
• Greco-Turkish War (1897)

20th century

• First Balkan War
• Second Balkan War
• Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
• Greco-Italian War
• World War II
  • Battle of Crete
  • Battle of Greece
• Greek Civil War
• Korean War
• Kosovo war

21st century

• Afghanistan

List of fortifications in Greece

Medieval period

Byzantine

• Monemvasia
• Mistra

Frankish & Crusader

• Passavas
• Beaufort Castle (Mani)
• Tigani
• Kastro tis Orias
• Kelefa

Venetian

• Kastro Larissa at Argos
• Kastro Palamidhi at Nafplio

Ottoman

Modern

American

• NSA Souda Bay

British

German (World War II-period)

Greek

• Metaxas Line

Italian (World War II & Dodecanese protectorate)

List of Greek military institutions

List of Greek military alliances

Ancient Greece

• Carthage

Byzantine

• Vandals

Modern

• Allied Powers
• NATO
• United Nations

Notes

See also

• Military of Greece
• History of the Hellenic Army
• History of the Hellenic Navy
• History of the Hellenic Air Force
• List of Wars

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