Military history of Greece
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The military history of Greece is the history of the wars and battles that took place in Greece, the Balkans, and the Greek colonies in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, respectively, since classical antiquity.
List of military encounters
Medieval period
- Iberian War (526-532)
- Battle of Dara (530)
- Vandalic War (533-534)
- Battle of Ad Decimum (533)
- Battle of Tricamarum (533)
- Gothic War (535-554)
- Battle of Taginae (552)
- Battle of Mons Lactarius (553)
- Arab–Byzantine wars (629–1050)
- Battle of Akroinon
- Siege of Constantinople (674–678)
- Siege of Constantinople (717–718)
- Battle of Lalakaon
- Roman–Persian Wars (92 BC-627)
- Battle of Nineveh (627)
- Byzantine–Bulgarian wars (680-1355)
- Battle of Anchialus (763)
- Battle of Kleidion (1014)
- Siege of Constantinople (1204)
- Battle of Pelagonia
- Byzantine–Seljuq wars (1048–1308)
- Battle of Philomelion
- Siege of Nicaea
- Battle of Hyelion and Leimocheir
- Siege of Trebizond (1205–06)
- Battle of Antioch on the Meander
- Byzantine–Ottoman Wars (1265–1453)
- Siege of Constantinople (1422)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
Ottoman Greece
- Battle of Lepanto (1571)
- Epirus peasant revolts (1600), (1611)
- Morean War (1684–1699)
- Orlov Revolt (1770)
- Ottoman invasion of Mani (1770)
- Siege of Kastania (1770)
- Battle of Chesma (1770)
- Battle of Vromopigada (1770)
- Sfakia revolt (1770)
- Ottoman invasion of Mani (1803)
- Souliotes
- Souliote War (1803)
- Ottoman invasion of Mani (1807)
- Ottoman invasion of Mani (1815)
19th century
- Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)
- Epirus Revolt of 1854
- Cretan Revolt (1866–69)
- Epirus Revolt of 1878
- Greco-Turkish War (1897)
20th century
- First Balkan War (1912–1913)
- Second Balkan War (1913)
- World War I (1917–1918)
- Balkans Campaign
- Macedonian Front
- Southern Russia intervention
- Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
- World War II
- Greco-Italian War (1940–1941)
- Battle of Greece (1941)
- Battle of Crete (1941)
- First Battle of El Alamein (1942)
- Second Battle of El Alamein (1942)
- Invasion of Normandy (1944)
- Greek Civil War (1945–1949)
- Korean War (1950–1953)
- Kosovo Force
21st century
- Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- 2011 Libyan civil war
List of fortifications in Greece
Medieval period
Byzantine
- Monemvasia
- Mistra
- Castle of Zarnata
Frankish and Crusader
- Passavas
- Beaufort
- Tigani
- Grand Magne, among several castles referred to as Kastro tis Orias
- Kelefa
Venetian
Ottoman
Modern
American
British
German (World War II-period)
Greek
Italian (World War II and Dodecanese Protectorate)
List of Greek military institutions
List of military alliances
Byzantine
Modern
- Russian Empire
- United Kingdom
- France
- Balkan League
- Allies of World War I
- Allies of World War II
- United States
- NATO
- United Nations
- Cyprus
- European Union
See also
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