Megali Idea

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.

Megali Idea Media

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  Map showing Greek ambitions at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, 1919

• Map of Greater Greece.png

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

• Map Greece expansion 1832-1947-en.svg

  The territorial expansion of Greece, 1832–1947.

• Zonaro GatesofConst.jpg

  Sultan Mehmed II's entry into Constantinople.

• Subject Nationalities of the German Alliance (1917) (cropped).jpg

  Ethnic map of Asia Minor in 1917.

  •      Bulgars and Turks
  •      Greeks
  •      Armenians
  •      Kurds
  •      Lazes
  •      Arabs
  •      Nestorians
• P. A. de László - Constantine I of Greece, King of the Hellenes.jpg

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

• Elefteriosvenizelos--victoryofvenizel00seliuoft.jpg

  Eleftherios Venizelos tried to realize the Megali Idea

• New Greece.jpg

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

• Map of Great Greece (Megali Hellas) Venizelos c1920.jpg

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