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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.

[edit] List of military encounters

[edit] 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
• Siege of Constantinople (1204)
• Battle of Pelagonia
• Fall of Constantinople (1453)

[edit] Ottoman Greece

• Orlov Revolt (1770)
• Battle of Vromopigada (1780)

[edit] 19th century

• Greek War of Independence (1821 - 1829)
• Greco-Turkish War (1897)

[edit] 20th century

• First Balkan War (1912 - 1913)
• Second Balkan War (1913)
• World War I (1917 - 1918)
  • Balkans Campaign
• Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
• World War II
  • Greco-Italian War (1940 - 1941)
  • Battle of Greece (1941)
  • Battle of Crete
• Greek Civil War (1945 - 1949)
• Korean War (1950 -1953)
• Kosovo war

[edit] 21st century

• Afghanistan

[edit] List of fortifications in Greece

[edit] Medieval period

[edit] Byzantine

• Monemvasia
• Mistra

[edit] Frankish & Crusader

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

[edit] Venetian

• Kastro Larissa at Argos
• Kastro Palamidhi at Nafplio

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[edit] Ottoman

[edit] Modern

[edit] American

• NSA Souda Bay

[edit] British

[edit] German (World War II-period)

[edit] Greek

• Metaxas Line

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[edit] Italian (World War II & Dodecanese protectorate)

[edit] List of Greek military institutions

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[edit] List of Greek military alliances

[edit] Ancient Greece

• Carthage

[edit] Byzantine

• Vandals

[edit] Modern

• Allied Powers
• NATO
• United Nations

[edit] Notes

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[edit] See also

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

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