Military history of Greece

The military history of Greece includes the history of battles fought in the peninsula of Greece, Cyprus, formerly Greek-speaking areas such as Asia Minor (Anatolia), and, the military history of the Greek people regarless of geography.

List of Greek military encounters

Prehistoric and ancient period

*Trojan War
*Persian Wars
**Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)
**Battle of Lade
**Battle of Marathon
**Battle of Thermopylae
**Battle of Salamis
**Battle of Plataea
**Battle of Mycale
**Battle of the Eurymedon
*Battle of Oenophyta
*Battle of Coronea
*Battle of Tanagra (457 BC)
*Sicilian Wars
**Battle of Himera
*Peloponnesian War
**Battle of Arginusae
**Battle of Delium
**Battle of Chalcis
**Battle of Sybota
**Battle of Potidaea
**Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)
**Battle of Notium
**Battle of Syme
**Battle of Cynossema
**Battle of Pylos
**Battle of Sphacteria
**Battle of Amphipolis
**Battle of Mantinea
**Battle of Olpae
**Sicilian Expedition
**Battle of Syme
**battle of Cyzicus
**battle of Aegospotami
*Corinthian War
*Battle of Coronea
*Battle of Naxos
*Corinthian War
*Battle of Leuctra
*Battle of Cynoscephalae
*Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
*March of the 10,000
**Battle of CunaxaBattle of Volo
*Foreign War
*Wars of Alexander the Great
**Battle of Chaeronea
**Battle of the Granicus
**Battle of Issus
**Siege of Tyre
**Battle of Gaugamela
**Battle of the Hydaspes River
*Lamian War
**Battle of Crannon
*Wars of the Diadochi
**Battle of Corupedium
**Battle of Crannon
**Battle of Gabiene
**Battle of Gaza (312 BC)
**Battle of Ipsus
**Battle of Paraitacene
**Battle of Raphia
**Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC)
*Chremonidean War
*Battle of Sellasia
*Battle of Pydna
*Battle of Cynoscephalae
*Battle of Asculum
*Cretan war
*First Macedonian War
*Second Macedonian War
*Third Macedonian War
*Fourth Macedonian War
**Battle of Pydna

Mediæval period

*Battle of Dara
*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

*Battle of Vromopigada

19th century

*Battle of Karpenizi
*Siege of Missolonghi
*Battle of Phaleron
*Battle of Navarino
*Greco-Turkish War (1897)

20th century

*First Balkan War
*Second Balkan War
*Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
*Greco-Italian War
*World War II
**Battle of Crete
**Battle of Greece
*Greek Civil War
*Korean War
*Kosovo war

21st century

*Afghanistan

List of fortifications in Greece

Ancient & Roman

*Long Walls
*Isthmus Wall
*Phocian Wall

Medieval period

Byzantine

*Monemvasia
*Mistra
*Walls of Constantinople

Frankish & Crusader

*Passavas
*Beaufort
*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

List of Greek military alliances

Ancient

*Achaean League
*League of Corinth
*Delian League
*Peloponnesian League
*Aetolian League
*Pan-Hellenic League
*Knossos Lague
*Gortyn League
*Mountain League
*Phaistos League

Byzantine

Modern

* NATO
* United Nations

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