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About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
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 ...
Ottoman–Zand War: Ottoman Empire: Zand Iran: Defeat. Basra captured by the Zands [147] [148] [149] Change of territories for the benefit of the Safavids for 4 years and restoration of the previous borders after the peace. 1787–1791 Austro-Turkish War: Ottoman Empire: Habsburg monarchy: Inconclusive. Orșova and Croatian borderlands ceded to ...
Icarian revolution against the Ottoman Empire 1912 1912 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 ...
The western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side. The promised territories included eastern Thrace , the islands of Imbros ( Gökçeada ) and Tenedos ( Bozcaada ), and parts of western Anatolia around ...
The Ottoman fleet, with 30 sailing ships, and 4 galleys, was seen to the south, on the west side of the bay entrance, on 19 July. With a light wind from the SSE, this meant that they had the advantage. Diedo, unable to sail to the west of the Ottoman fleet, decided to sail slowly east, across the bay.
1578 Georgian-Ottoman War; 1579–1583 Second Desmond Rebellion; 1580–1583 War of the Portuguese Succession; 1583–1588 Cologne War; 1585–1604 English-Spanish War – 48,000 killed in action [1] 1588–1654 Dutch–Portuguese War; 1587–1588 War of the Polish Succession; 1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War; 1593 Battle of Sisak; 1593–1606 ...
Conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453. After striking a blow to the weakened Byzantine Empire in 1356 (or in 1358 – disputable due to a change in the Byzantine calendar), (see Süleyman Pasha) which provided it with Gallipoli as a basis for operations in Europe, the Ottoman Empire started its westward expansion into the European continent in the middle of the 14th ...