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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)
• 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 (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–Seljuk Wars (1048–1308)
  • Battle of Philomelion
  • Siege of Nicaea
  • Battle of Hyelion and Leimocheir
  • Siege of Trebizond (1205–1206)
  • 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)
  • Siege of Tripolitsa
  • Battle of Gravia
  • Battle of Dervenakia
  • First Siege of Missolonghi
  • Second Siege of Missolonghi
  • Battle of Vassilika
  • Battle of Dervenakia
  • Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani
• Epirus Revolt of 1854
• Cretan Revolt (1866–1869)
• Epirus Revolt of 1878
  • Battle of Mouzaki
• Greco-Turkish War (1897)

20th century

• First Balkan War (1912–1913)
  • Battle of Sarantaporo
  • Battle of Yenidje
  • Battle of Pente Pigadia
  • Himara revolt of 1912
  • Battle of Elli
  • Capture of Korytsa
  • Battle of Lemnos (1913)
  • Battle of Bizani
• Second Balkan War (1913)
• World War I (1917–1918)
  • Balkans Campaign
  • Macedonian Front
• Allied expedition to the Ukraine
• Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
  • Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Eskişehir
• 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–present)
• 2011 Libyan civil war

1867 fanorian war

List of fortifications in Greece

Medieval period

Byzantine

• Monemvasia
• Mistra

Frankish and Crusader

• Passavas
• Beaufort
• Tigani
• Kastro tis Orias
• Kelefa

Venetian

• Kastro Larissa at Argos
• Palamidi at Nafplio

Modern

American

• NSA Souda Bay

Greek

• Metaxas Line

List of Greek military institutions

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

List of military alliances

Byzantine

• Goths
• Varangians
• Bulgarians
• Armenians
• Italian city-states
• Rus' people
• Alans
• Republic of Venice

Modern

• Russian empire
• United Kingdom
• France
• Balkan League
• Allies of World War I
• Allies of World War II
• USA
• NATO
• United Nations
• Cyprus
• European Union

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Military history of Greece.

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

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