Megali Idea facts for kids

The Megali Idea was an idea in Greek nationalism since the end of the Byzantine Empire. The goal of Megali Idea was the liberation of all Greek-inhabited lands occupied by Ottoman Empire.

Images for kids

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  Greek map showing the possible lands of a Greater Greece, 1919

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  Map of Megali Hellas (Great Greece) as proposed at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 by Eleftherios Venizelos, the leading major proponent of the Megali Idea at the time.

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  The territorial expansion of Greece, 1832–1947.

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  Sultan Mehmed II's entry into Constantinople.

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  The Greek Kingdom in 1831, after its independence.

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  Constantine I of Greece was called Constantine XII by his supporters, the legitimate successor to the Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos

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  Eleftherios Venizelos, the radical politician who tried to realize the Megali Idea

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  Poster celebrating the "New Greece" after the Balkan Wars.

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  Map of Megali Hellas after the Treaty of Sèvres and featuring a picture of Eleftherios Venizelos.

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  Greek soldiers in Smyrna, May 1919.

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  The partition of Cyprus showing the Turkish-occupied north and government controlled south.