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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.
The city of Smyrna (modern-day İzmir) and surrounding areas were under Greek military occupation from 15 May 1919 until 9 September 1922. The Allied Powers authorized the occupation and creation of the Zone of Smyrna (Greek: Ζώνη Σμύρνης, romanized: Zóni Smýrnis) during negotiations regarding the partition of the Ottoman Empire to protect the ethnic Greek population living in and ...
The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century until the successful Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 and the First Hellenic Republic was proclaimed in 1822, is known in Greece as Turkocracy (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, Tourkokratia, "Turkish ...
First Ottoman–Venetian War: 1463 1479 Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War: 1570 1573 Battle of Lepanto: 1571 Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War / Cretan War: 1645 1669 Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War / Morean War: 1684 1699 Siege of Rhodes * 1522 1522 Revolts at Vonitsa and Epirus 1585 1585 Himara Revolt: 1596 1596 Thessaly Revolt: 1600 1600
The Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (Portuguese: Guerra Turco-Portuguesa, Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu-Portekiz İmparatorluğu çekişmesi, 1538–60) were a period of conflict during the Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations and series of armed military encounters between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire along with regional allies in and along the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and ...
Greek Prime Minister Venizelos stated to a British newspaper that "Greece is not making war against Islam, but against the anachronistic Ottoman Government, and its corrupt, ignominious, and bloody administration, with a view to expelling it from those territories where the majority of the population consists of Greeks."
The island of Venetian-ruled Corfu remained the only Greek island not conquered by the Ottomans. [3] In the late seventeenth century, European powers began to consolidate against the Ottomans and formed the Holy League, reversing a number of Ottoman land gains during the Great Turkish War of 1683–99. Nevertheless, Ottoman armies were able to ...
Spanish-Ottoman War (1550–1560) Capture of Mahdia; Siege of Tripoli; Campaign of Tlemcen (1551) Capture of Béjaïa; Raid of the Balearic islands; Expedition to Mostaganem; Battle of Djerba; Part of German-Ottoman war 1550–1562, Spanish-Ottoman Wars of 1515–1577 and Conflicts between the Regency of Algiers and Morocco Ottoman Empire ...