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The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded Greece from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army temporarily halted the invasion and pushed the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene. The Germans invaded Greece and Yugoslavia ...
FN M1900. FN M1903. Colt M1907 Army Special. Mannlicher M1901. Chamelot-Delvigne M1873. Colt M1927 Official Police. Nagant M1895. Bergmann Bayard M1908.
Bayonet (made in different countries, to attach on rifles and muskets) Improvised knife (Greek made) Janbiya dagger (Arabian made) Khanjali dagger sword (Caucasian made, also known as Kinzhal) M1730 sword (Austrian made) Yatagan sabre (Turkish captured and Greek made)
List of Greek military equipment of World War II. This is a list of equipment of the Greek/ Hellenic Armed Forces during World War II. This list does not include weapons used by the Greek resistance during the occupation of Greece.
Military expenditure in Greece was reported at 3.69% of GDP in 2022, a significant increase from 1.9% in 2019. This surge in spending is largely attributed to the election of the New Democracy Party, making Greece the biggest spender on military as a percentage of GDP in all of NATO, surpassing even the United States.
This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other Greek colonies (First Greek colonisation, Second Greek colonisation, Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco ...
The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (German: Unternehmen Marita[13]), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasion in April 1941.
Greece's recovery from the devastation of World War II and the Axis occupation lagged far behind that of the rest of Europe. [173] About 8% of the Greek population of c. 7 million had died during the conflicts and the occupation. Sanitation conditions were deplorable, and the health of those who had survived was imperilled by a resurgence of ...