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* 1897 – Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4, 000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
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), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.
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1897 and Greco-Turkish
His attitude during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ) was one of strict neutrality.
Films of acted reproductions of scenes from the Greco-Turkish war were made by Georges Méliès in 1897, and although sold separately, these were no doubt shown in continuous sequence by exhibitors.
In the ensuing Greco-Turkish War of 1897 the badly trained and equipped Greek army was defeated by the Ottomans.
The city remained in Ottoman hands until Thessaly became part of the independent Greek kingdom in 1881, except for a period where Ottoman forces re-occupied it during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, the city was the headquarters of Greek Crown Prince Constantine.
He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913, in which Greece won Thessaloniki and doubled in area and population.
Constantine was the commander-in-chief of the Greek Army in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, which ended in a humiliating defeat.
Greece was not always successful in its expansionist ambitions ; it was defeated in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ).
Greece, at the time a state of 2, 666, 000 people, was considered the weakest of the three main allies, since it fielded the smallest army and had suffered an easy defeat against the Ottomans 16 years before in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
The Ottoman fleet had performed abysmally in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, forcing the Ottoman government to begin a drastic overhaul.
It fell again under Turkish sovereignty briefly during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
However, the Young Turks ( feeling confident after the Greco-Turkish war in 1897 ) threatened that they would make a military walk to Athens, if the Greeks insisted on such claims.
However, irregular Greek forces and followers of the Megali Idea acted without orders and raided Turkish outposts, leading the Ottoman Empire to declare war on Greece ; the war is known as the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
Unfortunately, the bank was unable to recover from his death and from the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ).
Ottoman soldiers wearing fezzes during the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ).
Since then the two countries have faced each other in four major wars — the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ), the First Balkan War of 1912 to 1913, the First World War ( 1914 to 1918 ) and the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ).
Greco-Turkish War in 1897 which resulted with the victory of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1897, a new revolt in Crete led to the first Greco-Turkish War.
Following the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ), defeated Greece was forced to pay a large war indemnity to Turkey (£ 4 million ).
The result was that the Hellenic Army was wholly unprepared for war on the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897: plans, fortifications and weapons were non-existent, the mass of the officer corps was unsuited to its tasks, and training was inadequate.
* Greco-Turkish War of 1897
Thus, when Greece went to war in the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, the Hellenic Navy established its dominance in the Aegean Sea, however, it was unable to change the outcome of the war on land, which was a national humiliation.
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