Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

List of military engagements of World War I - Western Front. First Battle of the Aisne Battle of Loos Battle of Liège Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Vimy Ridge First Battle of the Marne Siege of Antwerp Battle of Ginchy First Battle of Arras First Battle of Ypres First Battle of Champagne Second Battle of Ypres Second Battle of the Aisne Battle (or Siege) of Verdun ...

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The Save the Children Fund was founded in London in 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton. Their goal then was to create 'a powerful international organisation, which would extend its ramifications to the remotest corner of the globe'. Originally an offshoot of the Fight The Famine Council, a group set up to campaign against the Allied blockade of Germany and Austria-Hungary after the First World War, the Save the Children Fund was created to raise money to send emergency aid to children suffering as a consequences of t ...

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Save the Children, Save the Children - History

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Military history of Greece - Prehistoric and ancient period. Trojan War Battle of Ephesus Persian Wars 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 Peloponnesian War Battle of Arginusae Battle of Delium B ...

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Military history of Greece, Military history of Greece - List of Greek military encounters, Military history of Greece - Prehistoric and ancient period, Military history of Greece - Mediæval period, Military history of Greece - 19th century, Military history of Greece - 20th century, Military history of Greece - 21st century, Military history of Greece - List of fortifications in Greece, Military history of Greece - Ancient & Roman, Military history of Greece - Mediæval period, Military history of Greece - Modern, Military history of Greece - List of Greek military institutions, Military history of Greece - List of Greek military alliances, Military history of Greece - Ancient, Military history of Greece - Byzantine, Military history of Greece - Modern

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History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples. Western Huns empire stretched in 434 AD from Central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube river to the Baltic. The Hunnish-Bulgar association existed throughout the period between 377-453 AD - the time of the Hunnish hegemony in Central Europe. Other transient incursions were made by Goths, Gepids, Onogur, Avars. At one point the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths were Christians, but Arians. Ulfilas was the apostle to the Goths and he translated the Bible from Gr ...

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History of the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Early history, History of the Balkans - Chalcolithic civilization, History of the Balkans - Hallstatt, History of the Balkans - Indo-Europeanization, History of the Balkans - Classical antiquity, History of the Balkans - Odrysian empire, History of the Balkans - Dacian kingdom, History of the Balkans - Greek city-states and their colonies, History of the Balkans - Empire of Macedon, History of the Balkans - Illyrian kingdoms, History of the Balkans - The Roman conquests, History of the Balkans - Christianity during the Daco-Roman era, History of the Balkans - The Dark Ages and the Great Migrations, History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples, History of the Balkans - Slavs, History of the Balkans - Magyars, History of the Balkans - Bulgars and Bulgarians, History of the Balkans - Vlachs Romanians Aromanians Morlachs Istro-Romanians, History of the Balkans - Balkan linguistic union, History of the Balkans - Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, History of the Balkans - Genoa colonies in lower Danube, History of the Balkans - Fourth Crusade in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Battle of Nicopolis, History of the Balkans - Eastern Roman Empire, History of the Balkans - Ottoman Empire, History of the Balkans - East-West Schism, History of the Balkans - Habsburg Empire, History of the Balkans - Rise of Independence, History of the Balkans - 1804 First Serbian Uprising and 1815 Second Serbian Uprising, History of the Balkans - 1821 revolt in Greece and Romania, History of the Balkans - 1829 Adrianople peace, History of the Balkans - 1831 Bosnian Rebellion, History of the Balkans - 1848 Revolution, History of the Balkans - Russian defeat in Crimea: the Balkan implications, History of the Balkans - Desire of Independence, History of the Balkans - April uprising, History of the Balkans - 1877 War, History of the Balkans - Secularisation in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Orthodoxy, History of the Balkans - The Pig War, History of the Balkans - Balkan Wars, History of the Balkans - First Balkan War, History of the Balkans - Second Balkan War, History of the Balkans - The Balkans in modern times, History of the Balkans - World War I in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War I, History of the Balkans - World War II in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War II, History of the Balkans - Balkans during the Cold War, History of the Balkans - Post-Communism, History of the Balkans - Current state and perspectives

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Rafina is east of the Penteli mountains and northeast of the Mesogeia plain with an exception of farmland near the coastline to the north. The Cephissus River lies to the west. It is located E of Athens and the Attiki Odos (number 63), S of Nea Makri, NNE of the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport and N of Loutsa. Rafina is about 30 km E of downtown Athens. The Municipality of Rafina contains, besides the city itself, a large portion of the surround ...

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Greek written history extends far back into Ancient Greece, and was a major part of ancient Greek theater. Later, influences from the Roman Empire, Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire changed Greek music. In the 19th century, opera composers like Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795 - 1872), Spyridion Xyndas (1812 - 1896) and Spyros Samaras (1861 - 1917) helped revitalize Greek classical music. Music of Greece - Ancient Greece. ...

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History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples. Western Huns empire stretched in 434 AD from Central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube river to the Baltic. The Hunnish-Bulgar association existed throughout the period between 377-453 AD - the time of the Hunnish hegemony in Central Europe. Other transient incursions were made by Goths, Gepids, Onogur, Avars. At one point the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths were Christians, but Arians. Ulfilas was the apostle to the Goths and he translated the Bible from Gr ...

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History of the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Early history, History of the Balkans - Chalcolithic civilization, History of the Balkans - Hallstatt, History of the Balkans - Indo-Europeanization, History of the Balkans - Classical antiquity, History of the Balkans - Odrysian empire, History of the Balkans - Dacian kingdom, History of the Balkans - Greek city-states and their colonies, History of the Balkans - Empire of Macedon, History of the Balkans - Illyrian kingdoms, History of the Balkans - The Roman conquests, History of the Balkans - Christianity during the Daco-Roman era, History of the Balkans - The Dark Ages and the Great Migrations, History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples, History of the Balkans - Slavs, History of the Balkans - Magyars, History of the Balkans - Bulgars and Bulgarians, History of the Balkans - Vlachs Romanians Aromanians Morlachs Istro-Romanians, History of the Balkans - Balkan linguistic union, History of the Balkans - Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, History of the Balkans - Genoa colonies in lower Danube, History of the Balkans - Fourth Crusade in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Battle of Nicopolis, History of the Balkans - Eastern Roman Empire, History of the Balkans - Ottoman Empire, History of the Balkans - East-West Schism, History of the Balkans - Habsburg Empire, History of the Balkans - Rise of Independence, History of the Balkans - 1804 First Serbian Uprising and 1815 Second Serbian Uprising, History of the Balkans - 1821 revolt in Greece and Romania, History of the Balkans - 1829 Adrianople peace, History of the Balkans - 1831 Bosnian Rebellion, History of the Balkans - 1848 Revolution, History of the Balkans - Russian defeat in Crimea: the Balkan implications, History of the Balkans - Desire of Independence, History of the Balkans - April uprising, History of the Balkans - 1877 War, History of the Balkans - Secularisation in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Orthodoxy, History of the Balkans - The Pig War, History of the Balkans - Balkan Wars, History of the Balkans - First Balkan War, History of the Balkans - Second Balkan War, History of the Balkans - The Balkans in modern times, History of the Balkans - World War I in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War I, History of the Balkans - World War II in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War II, History of the Balkans - Balkans during the Cold War, History of the Balkans - Post-Communism, History of the Balkans - Current state and perspectives, History of the Balkans - Reference

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Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the Minoan and the Mycenaean. Αbout this time, the first alphabet was used by Minoans. After these, a Dark Age followed until around 800 BC, when a new era of Greek city-states emerged establishing colonies along the Mediterranean. Plato described how the Greeks live round the Aegean Archipelago "like frogs around a pond"; their name has always been associated with the sea. Greece - ...

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Greece, Greece - Name, Greece - History, Greece - Prehistory and antiquity, Greece - Roman rule and Middle Ages, Greece - Ottoman Period, Greece - Creation of the modern Greek state, Greece - Politics, Greece - Local government, Greece - Geography, Greece - Economy, Greece - Tourism, Greece - Demographics, Greece - Religion, Greece - Culture, Greece - Miscellaneous topics

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Several of the Aegean issues deal with the delimitation of both countries' zones of influence in the air and on the sea around their respective territories. These issues owe their virulence to a geographical peculiarity of the Aegean sea and its territories. While the mainland coasts of Greece and Turkey border the Aegean Sea on both sides and represent roughly equal shares of its total coastline, the overwhelming number of the many islands in the Aegean, which are scattered all across it, belong to Greece. In particular, there is a c ...

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Aegean dispute, Aegean dispute - Maritime and areal zones of influence, Aegean dispute - The territorial waters, Aegean dispute - The national airspace, Aegean dispute - The continental shelf, Aegean dispute - The Flight Information Regions, Aegean dispute - The islands, Aegean dispute - Demilitarized status, Aegean dispute - Greek settlement programmes, Aegean dispute - Grey zones, Aegean dispute - Strategies of conflict resolution

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When the 17-year-old Bavarian Prince Otto was installed by the London Conference of 1832 as King of Greece, he adopted the Greek name Othon. His troubled reign lasted for 30 years before he and his wife Queen Amalia left the way they came, aboard a British warship. During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of orderly government on the turbulent Greeks. Nevertheless they laid the foundations of a Greek administration, army, justice sys ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the Minoan and the Mycenaean. After these, a Dark Age followed until around 800 BC, when a new era of Greek city-states emerged establishing colonies along the Mediterranean. Greek culture would later become the basis of the Hellenistic civilization that followed the empire of Alexander the Great. For a detailed history of Ancient Greece see the relevant articles in: History of Greece. Greece - ...

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Greece, Greece - Name, Greece - History, Greece - Prehistory and antiquity, Greece - Roman rule and Middle Ages, Greece - Ottoman rule, Greece - Creation of the modern Greek state, Greece - Politics, Greece - Local government, Greece - Geography, Greece - Economy, Greece - Tourism, Greece - Demographics, Greece - Religion, Greece - Culture, Greece - Miscellaneous topics

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See main article Structure of the Hellenic Army. Hellenic Army - General Staff. Hellenic Army General Staff — Γενικό Επιτελείο Στρατού (ΓΕΣ) Chief-of-Staff of the Army — Αρχηγός Γ.Ε.Σ. The current Chief-of-Staff of the Army is Lt. Gen. Nikolaos Douvas. Inspector General of the Army — Γενικός Επιθεωρητής. Στρατού. The current IG is Lt. Gen. Evangelos Georgontas. 1st Deputy Chief- ...

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Hellenic Army, Hellenic Army - History, Hellenic Army - Organization, Hellenic Army - General Staff, Hellenic Army - Combat and support arms, Hellenic Army - Personnel, Hellenic Army - Insignia, Hellenic Army - Equipment

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Main Article: History of Greece. Greece - Prehistory and antiquity. The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations in Europe, namely the Minoan and the Mycenaean. After this, a Dark Age followed until around 800 BC, when a new era of Greek city-states emerged establishing colonies along the Mediterranean, and the alphabet was adopted from the Phoenicians. Plato described how the Greeks live round the Aegean Archipelago "like frogs around a pond"; their name has always been associated with the sea. Greece - ...

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Greece, Greece - Name, Greece - History, Greece - Prehistory and antiquity, Greece - Roman rule and Middle Ages, Greece - Ottoman Period, Greece - Creation of the modern Greek state, Greece - Politics, Greece - Local government, Greece - Geography, Greece - Economy, Greece - Tourism, Greece - Demographics, Greece - Religion, Greece - Culture, Greece - Miscellaneous topics

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Kurds claim descent from various ancient groups; among them the Guti, Mannai, Hurrian and Medes. The Medes came under Persian rule during the reign of Cyrus the Great and Darius. Centuries later, Kurdish-inhabited areas in the Middle East witnessed the clash of the two competing super powers of those times, namely the Sassanid Empire and the Roman Empire. At their peak, the Romans ruled large Kurdish-inhabited areas, particularly the western and north ...

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Kurdistan, Kurdistan - History, Kurdistan - Northern Kurdistan, Kurdistan - Forced relocations in Turkey, Kurdistan - The case of Leyla Zana, Kurdistan - Arrest of Ocalan, Kurdistan - Southern Kurdistan, Kurdistan - Anfal Genocidal Campaign, Kurdistan - Iranian Eastern Kurdistan, Kurdistan - The Shivan Qaderi incident, Kurdistan - Western Kurdistan

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Between the first (1896) and the recent (2004) modern Olympic Games in Athens the city of Kallithea grew significantly. First the tramway depot and workshop were built there (1910) followed by the Harokopios Graduate School (1925) and the Panteios Graduate Scholl of Political Sciences (1928). In the 1920s the town was flooded by the thousands of refugees after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Asia Minor Catastrophe (1922) and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). These refugees arrived in Kallithea mainly from the south Black Sea (Pont ...

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Kallithea, Kallithea - Location, Kallithea - The 1896 and 2004 Athens Olympics, Kallithea - The Growth of the City, Kallithea - Transportation, Kallithea - Sites of interest, Kallithea - Historical population

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When the 17-year-old Bavarian Prince Otto was installed by the London Conference of 1832 as King of Greece, he adopted the Greek name Othon. His troubled reign lasted for 30 years before he and his wife Queen Amalia left the way they came, aboard a Greek warship. During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of orderly government on the turbulent Greeks. Nevertheless they laid the foundations of a Greek administration, army, justice syste ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples. Western Huns empire stretched in 434 AD from Central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube river to the Baltic. The Hunnish-Bulgar association existed throughout the period between 377-453 AD - the time of the Hunnish hegemony in Central Europe. Other transient incursions were made by Goths, Gepids, Onogur, Avars. At one point the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths were Christians, but Arians. Ulfilas was the apostle to the Goths and he translated the Bible from Gr ...

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History of the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Early history, History of the Balkans - Chalcolithic cultures, History of the Balkans - Hallstatt, History of the Balkans - Indo-Europeanization, History of the Balkans - Classical antiquity, History of the Balkans - Odrysian empire, History of the Balkans - Dacian kingdom, History of the Balkans - Greek city-states and their colonies, History of the Balkans - Empire of Macedon, History of the Balkans - Illyrian kingdoms, History of the Balkans - The Roman conquests, History of the Balkans - Christianity during the Daco-Roman era, History of the Balkans - The Dark Ages and the Great Migrations, History of the Balkans - Nomadic peoples, History of the Balkans - Slavs, History of the Balkans - Magyars, History of the Balkans - Bulgars and Bulgarians, History of the Balkans - Vlachs Romanians Aromanians Morlachs Istro-Romanians, History of the Balkans - Balkan linguistic union, History of the Balkans - Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, History of the Balkans - Genoa colonies in lower Danube, History of the Balkans - Fourth Crusade in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Battle of Nicopolis, History of the Balkans - Eastern Roman Empire, History of the Balkans - Ottoman Empire, History of the Balkans - East-West Schism, History of the Balkans - Habsburg Empire, History of the Balkans - Rise of Independence, History of the Balkans - 1804 First Serbian Uprising and 1815 Second Serbian Uprising, History of the Balkans - 1821 revolt in Greece and Romania, History of the Balkans - 1829 Adrianople peace, History of the Balkans - 1831 Bosnian Rebellion, History of the Balkans - 1848 Revolution, History of the Balkans - Russian defeat in Crimea: the Balkan implications, History of the Balkans - Desire of Independence, History of the Balkans - April uprising, History of the Balkans - 1877 War, History of the Balkans - Secularisation in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Orthodoxy, History of the Balkans - The Pig War, History of the Balkans - Balkan Wars, History of the Balkans - First Balkan War, History of the Balkans - Second Balkan War, History of the Balkans - The Balkans in modern times, History of the Balkans - World War I in the Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War I, History of the Balkans - World War II in Balkans, History of the Balkans - Consequences of World War II, History of the Balkans - Balkans during the Cold War, History of the Balkans - Post-Communism, History of the Balkans - Current state and perspectives

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Written in Medieval Greek, the acritic songs deal with the ανδραγαθίες (heroic deeds) of ακρίτες (frontiersmen), warriors that lived near the Arab frontiers and fought against the enemy. The constant state of war in the region and the repeated confrontations with the Arabs inspired poets to write down tales of chivalry as a response to society that wished to be informed or hear details, whether factual or imaginary, for the adventures caused by enemy invasions or the martial valor of their countrymen who drove them out. The fate of the inhabitants who after each invasion often had to face the loss of family members as well ...

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Acritic songs, Acritic songs - Subject, Acritic songs - Origins, Acritic songs - Background, Acritic songs - Poems, Acritic songs - Legacy

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Main article: Culture of Greece Greece has produced a vast number of contributors to philosophy, astronomy, science, and the arts. For a list of famous Greek men and women, see List of Greeks. ...

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Main article: Names of the Greeks The historical name of Greece in Greek is Ἑλλάς Ellás /ɛˈlas/. This name is also written as Hellas in English, following the ancient Greek pronunciation /hɛˈl:as/. In modern Greek it is called more commonly Ελλάδα Elládha See also:

Greece, Greece - Name, Greece - History, Greece - Prehistory and antiquity, Greece - Roman rule and Middle Ages, Greece - Ottoman Period, Greece - Creation of the modern Greek state, Greece - Politics, Greece - Local government, Greece - Geography, Greece - Economy, Greece - Tourism, Greece - Demographics, Greece - Religion, Greece - Culture, Greece - Miscellaneous topics

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Main article: Politics of Greece The 1975 constitution includes extensive specific guarantees of civil liberties. The President of the Republic, elected by an increased majority of the Parliament for a term of five years, is nominally the Head of State. However, it is the prime minister and cabinet that play the central role in the political process, while the president performs very limited governmental functions ...

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