The Emperor achieved this by summoning former residents having fled the city when the Crusaders captured it, and by relocating Greeks from the recently reconquered Peloponnese to the capital.

The torpedo boat Nikopolis, former Ottoman Antalya, captured at Preveza by the Greeks

* 1821 – While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle.

To the south, the Greeks captured Sindh and nearby coastal areas, completing the invasion by 175 BCE and confining the borders of Sunga's ( Magadha Empire ) to the east.

With the help of a French expeditionary force, the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the captured part of Central Greece by 1828.

First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the Middle Ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.

The Greeks later captured and executed Artayctes, returning the treasure.

In the story, some Amazons were captured in battle by Greeks in Pontus ( northern Turkey ) near the river Thermodon, and the captives were loaded into three boats.

An ambush was laid for him by Emperor Alexius V " Murzuphlus " Ducas, but Henry and his force routed the Greeks soundly, captured a revered icon supposedly containing relics of Christ, and returned to the crusader camp.

After lengthy preparations, the Greeks broke through the Ottoman defences in the Battle of Bizani and captured Ioannina and most of Epirus up into what is today southern Albania ( Northern Epirus ).

By the end of the month, the Peloponnese was in open revolt against the Turks and by October 1821, the Greeks under Theodoros Kolokotronis had captured Tripolitsa.

With the help of a French expeditionary force, the Greeks drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese and proceeded to the captured part of Central Greece by 1828.

It was retaken by the Arabs, and then successively held by the Greeks, the Armenians, the Seljuk Turks ( 1087 ), the Crusaders ( 1099 ), who established there the County of Edessa and kept the city until 1144, when it was again captured by the Turk Zengi, and most of its inhabitants were slaughtered together with the Latin archbishop ( see Siege of Edessa ).

The torpedo boat Nikopolis, former Ottoman Antalya, captured at Preveza by the Greeks

To these Greeks captured more than 6, 000 prisoners and more than 130 artillery pieces, suffering 8, 700 casualties.

The Greeks captured Doirani on 5 July but were unable to cut off the Bulgarian retreat through Struma Pass.

On 19 July the Greeks captured Nevrokop, and on 25 July, in another amphibious operation entered Dedeağaç, so cutting off the Bulgarians completely from the Aegean sea.

Briseis ( Rose Byrne ), a member of the Trojan royal family, is captured and taken as a prize to the Greeks, despite Achilles claiming her as a war prize himself.

After the battle, Alexander buried the dead ( both Greeks and Persians ), and sent the captured Greek mercenaries back to Greece to work in the mines, as an abject lesson for any Greek who decided to fight for the Persians.

It was used as a mosque until 1912, when the Greeks captured the city during the Balkan War.

William II of Villehardouin took it in 1248, on honourable terms, after three years of siege ; in 1259 William was captured by the Greeks after the battle of Pelagonia and in 1262 it was retroceded to Michael VIII Palaiologos as part of William's ransom.

* Byzantium: Originally captured from Persian forces by the Greeks in 478 BC, and subsequently taken from the control of Pausanias by the Athenians in 476, a garrison had been stationed there ever since its revolt from Athenian rule in 440-439 BC.

When it was captured by the Bulgars, they changed its name to Sredetz, later transformed by the Greeks into Sraditza and Triaditza.

Harpagus captured Lycia, Cilicia and Phoenicia, using the technique of building earthworks to breach the walls of besieged cities, a method unknown to the Greeks.

Even Poseidon, who normally favors the Greeks, comes to Aeneas ' rescue after he falls under the assault of Achilles, noting that Aeneas, though from a junior branch of the royal family, is destined to become king of the Trojan people.

Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Greeks during the Trojan War.

Although in his later years, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side again against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea " of Thracian birth ", who was slain by Achilles.

Later Greek myths also say that Helen had spent the time of the Trojan War in Egypt, and not at Troy, and that after Troy the Greeks went there to recover her.

His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.

For this action, Philoctetes or Poeas received Heracles ' bow and arrows, which were later needed by the Greeks to defeat Troy in the Trojan War.

The blinding and mocking of Polyphemos called down the nemesis of Poseidon upon Odysseus ; Poseidon already bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented the Greeks from being discovered inside the Trojan Horse.

The Greeks ' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War.

The Heroes of the Greeks, vii: " The Prelude to the Trojan War ", pp 308ff.

His minor role in the Epic Cycle narrating the Trojan War was of warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks —" A deadly fraud is this ," he said, " devised by the Achaean chiefs!

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

In the Iliad Poseidon favors the Greeks, and on several occasion takes an active part in the battle against the Trojan forces.

Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Even though Poseidon fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War, he bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented them from being discovered inside of the Trojan Horse.

Faisal Husseini, former Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem, compared the al-Aqsa intifada following the Oslo peace process to the tactic of coming out of the Trojan Horse used by the Greeks in the myth of the Trojan War.

It was for her sake, he said, that the Greeks and Barbarians fought the Trojan War, deluding themselves with an image of truth, for the real being was then present with the First God.

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans ( Greeks ) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta.

The ancient Greeks thought that the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern-day Turkey near the Dardanelles.

In Book 4, while the Greeks and Trojans squabble over the duel's winner, Athena inspires the Trojan Pandarus to kill Menelaus with his bow and arrow.

According to Hyginus, Menelaus killed eight men in the war, and was one of the Greeks hidden inside the Trojan Horse.

Although Achaean Greeks were living in Cyprus from the 14th century, most of them inhabited the island after the Trojan war.

The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the subterfuge that the Greeks used to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict.