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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 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 ...
The Triple Entente had made contradictory promises about post-war arrangements concerning Greek hopes in Asia Minor. [46] The western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire if Greece entered the war on the Allied side. [47]
Britain: Greek Revolutionaries Supported By: Greece: Victory: 1858 Battle of Grahovac Ottoman Empire Montenegro: Defeat: 1861–1862 Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–62) Ottoman Empire Montenegro: Victory. Convention of Scutari; 1862 First Zeitun Resistance: Ottoman Empire: Armenian fedayees: Defeat. Ottoman troops pillage Alabaş; Ottoman ...
On 30 October 1918, the Armistice of Mudros was signed between the Entente powers and the Ottoman Empire ending the Ottoman front of World War I. Great Britain, Greece, Italy, France, and the United States began discussing what the treaty provisions regarding the partition of Ottoman territory would be, negotiations which resulted in the Treaty ...
The Ottoman garrisons in the Peloponnese surrendered and the Greek revolutionaries retook central Greece. The Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia allowing for the Russian army to move into the Balkans. This forced the Ottomans to accept Greek autonomy in the Treaty of Adrianople and semi-autonomy for Serbia and the Romanian principalities. [6]
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
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 ...