Reigned AD 976–1025
Basil II and the Balkan Wars
Basil II ruled from AD 976 to 1025 and spent much of his reign consolidating imperial authority. His long conflict with the…
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c. 480–406 BC
Euripides and the Outsiders of Tragedy
Euripides was the youngest of the three great surviving Athenian tragedians. Eighteen or nineteen complete plays survive, including Medea, The Trojan Women…
Read story →1853–1856
Greece and the Crimean War
During the Crimean War, many Greeks hoped that Russia's conflict with the Ottoman Empire would allow territorial expansion. Unofficial revolts began in…
Read story →1914–1918
Greece and the First World War
Greece remained officially neutral during the first years of the First World War while Allied armies operated from Thessaloniki. In 1917 King…
Read story →1912–1913
Greece in the First Balkan War
In 1912 Greece joined Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro in war against the Ottoman Empire. Greek land and naval forces achieved rapid gains…
Read story →Especially seventeenth–early nineteenth centuries
Klephts and Armatoloi
Klephts were armed groups who lived beyond direct Ottoman control, while armatoloi served in officially recognized local security districts. The line between…
Read story →c. 7000–3200 BC
Neolithic Greece: The First Farming Communities
From the early seventh millennium BC, farming communities appeared across Thessaly, Macedonia, central Greece, the Peloponnese and the islands. They cultivated crops,…
Read story →Late 1940s–1950s
Postwar Reconstruction and the Marshall Plan
After occupation and civil war, Greece faced destroyed transport, housing shortages, inflation and mass displacement. American assistance through the Truman Doctrine and…
Read story →1941–1944
The Axis Occupation and the Great Famine
Greece was divided among German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation zones after the military defeat of 1941. The breakdown of transport, requisitioning and…
Read story →April 1941
The Battle of Greece
Germany invaded Greece in April 1941 after the failure of Italy to achieve victory. Greek, British, Australian and New Zealand forces attempted…
Read story →1946–1949
The Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War was fought between the government army and the communist-led Democratic Army of Greece. The conflict devastated mountain regions,…
Read story →1941–1944
The Greek Resistance
Resistance in occupied Greece took many forms, from guerrilla warfare and sabotage to urban organization, escape networks, publishing and mass demonstrations.
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