This article is about the period from 400 AD onwards. For the period prior to 400 AD, see Military history of ancient 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.
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)
- Roman-Persian Wars (92 BC-627)
- Battle of Nineveh (627)
- Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars (680-1355)
- Siege of Constantinople (1204)
- Battle of Pelagonia
- Byzantine–Seljuk Wars (1048–1308)
- Byzantine–Ottoman Wars (1265–1453)
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 (1866–1869)
- Epirus Revolt of 1878
- Greco-Turkish War (1897)
20th century[]
- First Balkan War (1912–1913)
- Second Balkan War (1913)
- World War I (1917–1918)
- Allied expedition to the Ukraine
- 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–present)
- 2011 Libyan civil war
List of fortifications in Greece[]
Medieval period[]
Byzantine[]
- Monemvasia
- Mistra
Frankish & Crusader[]
Venetian[]
- Kastro Larissa at Argos
- Kastro Palamidhi at Nafplio
Ottoman[]
Modern[]
American[]
British[]
German (World War II-period)[]
Greek[]
Italian (World War II & Dodecanese protectorate)[]
List of Greek military institutions[]
List of Greek military alliances[]
Byzantine[]
- Europe
- Varangians
- Cumans
- Bulgarians
- Armenia
- Rusdisambiguation needed
- Alans
- Mongols
Modern[]
- United Nations
- European Union
- Allied Powers
- NATO
- Russia
- Serbia
Notes[]
See also[]
- 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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