Greece officially entered the Great War rather belatedly in June 1917, despite i…
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Survey Articles (Regional)
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Greece
By Loukianos Hassiotis
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…
Regional Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (South East Europe)
By Danilo Šarenac
The article examines the main characteristics of commemorative processes which t…
Regional Thematic
Film/Cinema (South East Europe)
By Radina Vučetić
This article offers a synthetic picture of the presence of World War I motifs in…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
The First World War devastated the human workforce through death and invalidity …
Regional Thematic
Post-war Societies (South East Europe)
By Ian Innerhofer
South East European societies faced several challenges in the post-war period. T…
Regional Thematic
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…
Regional Thematic
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…
Regional Thematic
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.…
Entry
Constantine I, King of Greece
By Elli Lemonidou
King Constantine I, a brave army officer but rather controversial in his politic…
Entry
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
Thematic
Antisemitism
By Werner Bergmann, Ulrich Wyrwa
The First World War and its direct repercussions in the postwar period (revoluti…
Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning
By Manfred Hettling, Tino Schölz
In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …
Thematic
Centenary (Visual Arts)
By Paul Gough
The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…
Thematic
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…
Thematic
Refugees
By Peter Gatrell
This article addresses the scale of wartime population displacement in continent…
Thematic
Resettlement
By Peter Gatrell
The conduct of warfare in 1914-1918 included extensive population resettlement i…
Thematic
Revolutions
By Chad R. Fulwider
This article surveys the various movements toward social, national, and politica…
Thematic
The Paris Peace Conference and its Consequences
By Alan Sharp
This article offers an overview of peacemaking after the First World War from th…
Thematic
War in the Balkans
By Richard C. Hall
The Balkan Wars erupted in South Eastern Europe in October 1912. Fighting contin…
Thematic
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…
