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.
War
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Start Of The War
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Finish Of The War
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Notes
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Trojan War
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ca. 1194 BC
or between 1260
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ca. 1184 BC
and 1240 BC
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No one knows exactly the years the war took place.
Traditional dating is ca. 1194–1184 BC and modern dating is between 1260 and 1240 BC
The ancient Greek poet Homer wrote about this war in his epic poem Iliad.
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5th century BC
4th century BC
( * ) The Greek Kingdom of Pergamon helped the Roman Republic.
( * ) 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
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
19th century
1833–1899
( * ) Greeks helped the Russian army.
War
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Start Of The War
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Finish Of The War
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Name of Conflict
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Start Of The Conflict
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Finish Of The Conflict
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Battle/ Siege
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Years Of Battle/ Siege
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1841
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1841
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Crimean War *
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1853
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1856
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Revolts in Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus against Ottoman Empire
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1854
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1854
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Battle of Filiadona
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1854
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Battle of Melissatika
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1854
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Battle of the gardens of Ano Volos
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1854
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Battle of Fyllouria
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1854
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Battle of Sphlaio
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1854
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Battle of Pedino
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1854
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Battle of Dhmario
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1854
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Battle of Skoulhkaria
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1854
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Battle of Domokos
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1854
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Battle of Thaumako
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1854
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1858
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1858
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1866
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1869
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Revolts in Thessaly and Epirus against Ottoman Empire
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1878
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1878
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Epirus Revolt
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1878
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1878
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Revolt of Tzoumerka
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1878
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Revolt of Valtos
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1878
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Revolt of Radovitsi
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1878
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Revolt of Arta
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1878
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Battle of Lykoursi
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1878
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Thessaly Revolt
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1878
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1878
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Battle of Kato Moni Ksenias
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1878
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Battle of Palio Platano
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1878
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Battle of Sourvia
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1878
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First Battle of Makrinitsa
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1878
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Second Battle of Makrinitsa
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1878
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Battle of Kedros
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1878
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Battle of Sekliza
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1878
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Battle of Mataragka
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1878
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Battle of Mouzaki
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1878
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1885
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1885
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1888
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1888
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1889
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1889
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1895
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1896
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Greco-Turkish War
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1897
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1897
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Battle of Livadeia, Crete
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1897
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Battle of Tyrnavos
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1897
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Battle of Farsala
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1897
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Battle of Domokos
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1897
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Cretan Revolt against Ottoman Empire
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1897
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1898
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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
War
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Start Of The War
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Finish Of The War
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Battle
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Year Of Battle
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Greek Civil War
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1946
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1949
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Battle of Litoxoro
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1946
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Battle of Karditsa
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1948
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Battle of Sofades
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1948
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Battle of Edessa
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1948
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Battle of Naousa
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1948
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Battle of Ardea
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1948
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Battle of Naousa
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1949
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Battle of Karpenisi
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1949
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Battle of Leonidio
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1949
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Battle of Agios Vasilios of Cynuria
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1949
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Battle of Florina
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1949
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Battle of Tsarnos line
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1949
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Battle of Vitsi
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1949
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Battle of Grammos
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1949
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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.
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