Regions: Greece
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Survey Articles (Regional)

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Greece
By Loukianos Hassiotis
Greece officially entered the Great War rather belatedly in June 1917, despite i…

Regional Thematic Articles

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Civilian and Military Power (South East Europe)
By John Paul Newman
In pre-war South East Europe, both civilian and military powers focused on the c…
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Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (South East Europe)
By Danilo Šarenac
The article examines the main characteristics of commemorative processes which t…
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Film/Cinema (South East Europe)
By Radina Vučetić
This article offers a synthetic picture of the presence of World War I motifs in…
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Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
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Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
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Post-war Societies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
South East European societies faced several challenges in the post-war period. T…
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Pre-war Military Planning (South East Europe)
By Dmitar Tasić
Nations of South East Europe had just ended a short but very intense period of w…
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Propaganda at Home and in Exile (South East Europe)
By Samuel Foster
This article explores the nature of propaganda in those South East European stat…
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War Aims and War Aims Discussions (South East Europe)
By Mile Bjelajac
This article offers a survey of the main currents in South East Europe in regard…

Encyclopedic Entries

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Balkan Wars 1912-1913
By Richard C. Hall
The Balkan Wars were two sharp conflicts that heralded the onset of World War I.…
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Constantine I, King of Greece
By Elli Lemonidou
King Constantine I, a brave army officer but rather controversial in his politic…
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Metaxas, Ioannis
By Elli Lemonidou
Ioannis Metaxas was a conservative army officer and politician, who influenced d…
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Movement of National Defence (Greece)
By Loukianos Hassiotis
The Movement of National Defence was an organisation of Venizelist army officers…
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Russian Expeditionary Force
By Sofya Anisimova, Gwendal Piégais
The Russian Expeditionary Force in France and in Macedonia (“Brigades russes en …
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The Soldier's Sister
By Charalampos Minasidis
Greece’s Long Great War witnessed the mobilization of its young women as caretak…
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Venizelos, Eleutherios
By Elli Lemonidou
One of the most prominent and important statesmen in modern Greek history, Eleut…

See Also

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Antisemitism
By Werner Bergmann, Ulrich Wyrwa
The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…
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Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
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Centenary (Visual Arts)
By Paul Gough
The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…
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Nationalism
By John Paul Newman
This article offers an overview of the progress of nationalism and the national …
Thematic
Post-war Societies
By Richard Bessel
The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…
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Refugees
By Peter Gatrell
This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…
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Resettlement
By Peter Gatrell
The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…
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Revolutions
By Chad R. Fulwider
This article surveys the various movements toward social, national, and politica…
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The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
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War in the Balkans
By Richard C. Hall
The Balkan Wars erupted in South Eastern Europe in October 1912. Fighting contin…
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Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War
By Jean-Jacques Becker
It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…

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