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The destruction of the Turkish flagship by Admiral Kanaris at Chios. Painted by Nikiforos Lytras.
Greek troops in Smyrna following its occupation by Greece in 1919.
Photo credit: Photograph for Cumhuriyet, source unknown.
A painting showing the Battle of Navarino. Oil painting by Carneray.
The Greeks sallying from Messologhi. Oil painting by Theodore Vryzakis.
A drawing of an Agrianian peltast. Agrianian peltasts serviced in Alexander the Great's army. Illustration by Johnny Shumate.
Alexander fighting Persian king Darius III at Issus (not visible). From a mosiac found in Pompeii.
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David (1814).
Independence being declared at the Monstery of St Lavra by Bishop Germanos. Oil on canvas painting by Theodoros Vryzakis. (1865)
A manuscript depicting the elite Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire. From the Skylitzis Chronicle.
A manuscript shwoing the use of Greek fire in the Byzantine Navy. From the Skylitzes Chronicle
A painting depicting the Fall of Constantinople. Painted in 1499, Paris.
