List of wars involving Greece

This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Byzantine Empire/ Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine Greek successor states of the Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Greece and Greece between 3000 BC and the present day.

Bronze Age, Greek Bronze Age

Helladic (Early Helladic (EH) and Middle Helladic (MH)), Cycladic and Minoan Period

Mycenaean Period

Ancient Greece

Dark Ages

Archaic Period

Classical Period

5th century BC

4th century BC

Hellenistic Period

( * ) The Greek Kingdom of Pergamon helped the Roman Republic.

Roman Period

( * ) In the battle was not the Greek Kingdom of Pontus, but the Kingdom of Armenia.

Medieval Greece

Byzantine Period, Byzantine Greek successor states of the Byzantine Empire and Frankokratia

(Frankokratia was after 1204, when Crusader states were established on the territory of the dissolved Byzantine Empire)

330–628

629–1204

1205–1459

Ottoman Greece

1460–1799

( * ) Greeks helped the Christian armies.
( ** ) Greeks helped the Russian army.

In 1460 the Despotate of the Morea conquered by the Ottomans and by 1500 most of the plains and islands of Greece were in Ottoman hands, but not all, for example Rhodes conquered in 1522, Cyprus in 1571, Venetians retained Crete until 1669, the Ionian islands were only briefly ruled by the Ottomans, and remained primarily under the rule of the Republic of Venice.

19th century

1800–1832

Modern Greece

19th century

1833–1899

( * ) Greeks helped the Russian army.

20th century

1900–1938

( * ) Greece officially entered the World War I at 1917.

1939–1945

( * ) Greece entered the World War II in 1940.

1946–1949

There were fights between Greeks before 1946, but these were the prelude and not officially the start of the civil war

1950–1989

1990–1999

( * ) If the Greek force had/have a specific name.

The Greek forces had/have mostly peacekeeping, humanitarian, logistics, reconstruction and support role, except in the Imia/Kardak crisis.

21st century

( * ) If the Greek force had/have a specific name.
( ** ) Operations started in the 20th century but continuing into the 21st century are listed in both centuries.
( *** ) ISAF is in Afghanistan from 2001–present, but ELDAF-TESAF was from 2002-2012. There are still 10 trainers of the Hellenic Air Force who are training Afghanese pilots.
( **** ) The Greek Forces in Afghanistan was named ELDAF until 2005 and later they renamed to TESAF.
( ***** ) The Maritime Task Force (MTF) is the naval component of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

The Greek forces had/have mostly peacekeeping, humanitarian, logistics, reconstruction and support role.