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The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 or the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897 (Turkish: 1897 Osmanlı-Yunan Savaşı or 1897 Türk-Yunan Savaşı), also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97 (Greek: Μαύρο '97, Mauro '97) or the Unfortunate War (Greek: Ατυχής πόλεμος, romanized: Atychis polemos), was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
March 9: Germany declared war on Portugal. [20] The Portuguese government started to organise the participation of its troops on the Western Front. Shortly afterward, Portugal began closing its consulates in the Ottoman Empire. (The Ottomans had no representation in Portugal.) [21] March 15: Austria-Hungary declared war on Portugal.
Russo-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire Russia: Defeat. In recognition of the Treaty of London, the independence of Greece, or autonomy under Ottoman suzerainty, was accepted. The Ottoman Empire had nominal suzerainty over the Danube states of Moldavia and Wallachia; for all practical purposes, they; were independent.
Greek military formation in the World War I victory parade in Arc de Triomphe, Paris, July 1919. The Macedonian front stayed mostly stable throughout the war. In May 1918, Greek forces attacked Bulgarian forces and defeated them at the Battle of Skra-di-Legen on 30 May 1918. Later in 1918, the Allied forces drove their offensive from Greece ...
World War I (Greece in World War I) * 1914 1918 Mediterranean Theater: 1914 1918 Battle of Imbros: 1918 Balkans Campaign / Macedonian front: 1914 1918 Battle of Skra-di-Legen: 1918 Vardar Offensive: 1918 1918 Battle of Doiran: 1918 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War: 1918 1920 Greco-Turkish War: 1919 1922 Greek landing at Smyrna: 1919 ...
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa.
The Ottoman entry into World War I began on 29 October 1914 when it launched the Black Sea Raid against Russian ports. Following the attack, Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire on 2 November, [14] followed by their allies (Britain and France) declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on 5 November 1914. [15]
The Ottoman–Portuguese or the Turco-Portuguese confrontations [1] [2] [3] refers to a series of different military encounters between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire, or between other European powers and the Ottoman Empire in which relevant Portuguese military forces participated. Some of these conflicts were brief, while others ...