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.
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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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Sultan Mehmed II's entry into Constantinople.
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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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The partition of Cyprus showing the Turkish-occupied north and government controlled south.

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