Military history of Greece

This article is about the period from 400 AD onwards. For the period prior to 400 AD, see Military history of ancient 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.

List of military encounters

Medieval Period

• Iberian War (526-532)
  • Battle of Dara (530)
  • Battle of Callinicum (531)
• 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)
• Byzantine-Arab Wars (634-717, 800s-1025, 1169)
  • Battle of Yarmouk (636)
• Roman-Persian Wars (92 BC-627)
  • Battle of Nineveh (627)
• Muslim conquests (632-732)
  • Siege of Constantinople (674–678)
• Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars (680-1355)
  • Battle of Anchialus (917)
  • Battle of Pliska (811)
  • Battle of Kleidion (1014)
• Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
• Siege of Constantinople (1204)
• Battle of Pelagonia
• Byzantine–Seljuk Wars (1048–1308)
  • Battle of Manzikert
  • Battle of Myriokephalon
• Byzantine–Ottoman Wars (1265–1453)
  • Fall of Constantinople (1453)

Ottoman Greece

• Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540)
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)
• Battle of Lepanto (1571)
• Epirus peasant revolts (1600), (1611)
• Cretan War (1645–1669)
• Morean War (1684–1699)
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)
• 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)
• Ottoman Invasion of Mani (1807)
• Ottoman Invasion of Mani (1815)

19th century

• Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)
• Epirus Revolt of 1854
• Cretan Revolt (1866–1869)
• Epirus Revolt of 1878

20th century

• First Balkan War (1912–1913)
• Second Balkan War (1913)
• World War I (1917–1918)
  • Balkans Campaign
  • Macedonian Front
• 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)
• Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
• Kosovo Force

21st century

• Afghanistan
• Libyan Civil War

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

• Hellenic Military Academy
• Hellenic Naval Academy
• Hellenic Air Force Academy

List of Greek military alliances

Ancient Greece

• Carthage

Byzantine

• Vandals

Modern

• Allied Powers
• NATO
• United Nations

Notes

See also

Military of Greece portal

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