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

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  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.

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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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  Ethnic map of Asia Minor in 1917.

  •      Bulgars and Turks
  •      Greeks
  •      Armenians
  •      Kurds
  •      Lazes
  •      Arabs
  •      Nestorians
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  Constantine I of Greece was called Constantine XII by his supporters, the purported successor to the Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos

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  Eleftherios Venizelos tried to realize the Megali Idea

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

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