Military history of Greece
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. (For the equivalent for the period 3000 BC to AD 400, see Military history of ancient Greece.)
List of Greek military encounters
Mediæval period
- Battle of Daraa
- Battle of Callinicum
- Battle of Ad Decimum
- Battle of Ticameron
- 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
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
- Greek Civil War
- Korean War
- Kosovo war
21st century
List of fortifications in Greece
Medieval period
Byzantine
Frankish & Crusader
Venetian
Ottoman
Modern
American
- NSA Souda Bay
British
German (World War II-period)
Greek
Italian (World War II & Dodecanese protectorate
List of Greek military institutions
List of Greek military alliances
Byzantine
Modern
See also
- Military of Greece
- Wars 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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