The Megali Idea (Greek: Μεγάλη Ιδέα, romanized: Megáli Idéa, lit. 'Great Idea') is a nationalist and irredentist concept that expresses the goal of reviving...

identity was heightened and a concept called the Megali Idea (Μεγάλη Ιδέα, Megáli Idéa, “Great Idea”) was developed. It exhibited pride in Greece's success...

concessions in Western Anatolia and Thrace in an attempt to accomplish the Megali Idea, which would have united all Greek-speaking people along the Aegean Sea...

British administration would lead to enosis. The idea of enosis was historically part of the Megali Idea, a greater political ambition of a Greek state...

lands, with Constantinople as its capital. This was called the Great Idea (Megali Idea), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman...

Venizelos and ideas of Greek irredentism supporting the Megali Idea. It had a Francophile stance as the ideas of the French Revolution and the idea of one state...

led the Greek military junta of 1967–74 Megali Idea, an irredentist concept of Greek nationalism Szeged Idea, refers to the proto-fascist ideology that...

unification of Moldova and Romania. The idea is comparable to other similar conceptions such as the Greater Bulgaria, Megali Idea, Greater Yugoslavia, Greater Hungary...

ally of the Ottoman Empire and openly opposed the construction of the Megali Idea, which could establish a Greek state that would encompass all ethnic...

commonwealth Byzantine studies Museums Byzantinism Cyrillic script Neo-Byzantine architecture Greek scholars in the Renaissance Third Rome Megali Idea...

Cypriots advocated for Enosis (Union with Greece) which was a part of the Megali idea. The origins of Enosis date back to 1821, the year when the Greek War...

all, with Constantinople as its capital. This was called the Great Idea (Megali Idea), and it was sustained by almost continuous rebellions against Ottoman...

Liberalism (Republicanism, Venizelism) Nationalism (Hellenocentrism, Megali Idea, Enosis) New Social Movements (Environmentalism, Feminism, Pacifism)...

Austrian government, as is also the case in Germany. In Greece, the Megali Idea ("Great Idea") developed shortly after the War of Independence of recreating...

reworked. For Greece, the treaty brought to an end the impetus behind the Megali Idea, the notion that modern Greece should encompass those territories in...

nationalism during the formation of the Greek state and in the age of the new "Megali Idea" was widened and intensified. Kostis Palamas, among the greatest of Greek...

shortly prior to, and during World War I, when the Greeks, inspired by the Megali Idea, managed to liberate parts of Greece in the Balkan Wars and after World...

in Smyrna was part of Eleftherios Venizelos's plan, inspired by the Megali Idea, to liberate the large Greek populations in the Asia Minor. Prior to...

the "unredeemed" Greeks of the Ottoman Empire, in accordance with the Megali Idea, i.e., the goal of uniting all Greeks in one country. As a people, the...

visions of a future state included all Balkan Orthodox Christians. This Megali Idea intended to revive the Eastern Roman Empire through a large Greek state...

Allies were more open to making promises to Greece about fulfilling the Megali Idea. However, the Allies still wanted to keep Bulgaria neutral, and through...

damage their own walls. According to David Nicolle, despite many odds, the idea that Constantinople was inevitably doomed is incorrect and the situation...

communities living outside of Greece into the Greek state. The idea is related to the Megali Idea, a concept of a Greek state that dominated Greek politics...

Liberalism (Republicanism, Venizelism) Nationalism (Hellenocentrism, Megali Idea, Enosis) New Social Movements (Environmentalism, Feminism, Pacifism)...

this period. Some of them were new settlements, others were renamed. Megali Idea "Российские города с греческими именами" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback...

Kingdom of Greece set up consulates in the Ottoman Empire to spread the Megali Idea. While the Anatolians recognized a shared cultural heritage, most weren't...

Liberalism (Republicanism, Venizelism) Nationalism (Hellenocentrism, Megali Idea, Enosis) New Social Movements (Environmentalism, Feminism, Pacifism)...

with conceiving the Byzantine restorationist and irredentist Megali Idea or "Great Idea" which became the core of Greek foreign policy until the early...

Liberalism (Republicanism, Venizelism) Nationalism (Hellenocentrism, Megali Idea, Enosis) New Social Movements (Environmentalism, Feminism, Pacifism)...

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