Greek Volunteer Legion information

The Greek Volunteer Legion (Greek: Ελληνική Λεγεώνα Εθελοντών) was a volunteer military corps formed by Greeks and other Balkan Christians that fought...

Russian Empire. The Greek Volunteer Guard, fought in the Bosnian War on the side of the Army of Republika Srpska. The Greek Volunteer Legion, fought in the...

students at the University of Lviv in 1848 Greek Volunteer Legion, helping Russia in the Crimean War International Legion, a military force formed by Garibaldi...

May 1943. Azerbaijani Legion Free Indian Legion Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts and related...

Freiwilligen-Stamm-Regiment 1 (Turkish volunteers) Armenische Legion (Armenian volunteers) Aserbaidschanische Legion (Azerbaijani volunteers) 30. Waffen-Grenadier-Division...

way they had come to Greece), taking with them the Greek regalia which they had brought from Bavaria in 1832. In 1863 the Greek National Assembly elected...

The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (French: Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, LVF) was a unit of the German Army during...

Greece and went into exile. In spite of everything, the King refused to abdicate and did not envision his departure as being definitive. 1862 Greek head...

he was forced to abdicate in 1862. In addition, a 1,000-strong Greek Volunteer Legion was formed in the Danubian Principalities in 1854 and later fought...

Georgian National Legion.The GNL has been seen multiple times in news reports and interviews and can be seen as one of the more known Volunteer battalions....

1823), a unit of volunteers from Germany in the Greek War of Independence, at the call of Friedrich Thiersch German Democratic Legion (1849-1849), a unit...

The first constitution of the Kingdom of Greece was the Greek Constitution of 1844. On 3 September 1843, the military garrison of Athens, with the help...

The English Party (Greek: Αγγλικό Κóμμα), was one of the three informal early Greek parties that dominated the political history of the First Hellenic...

own foreign legions with a high degree of independence, including the: Scandinavian Corps (Skandinaviens Korps), Italian Volunteer Legion, two Irish Brigades...

republican era legion may have been influenced by the ancient Greek and Macedonian phalanx. For most of the Roman Imperial period, the legions formed the...

The French Party (Greek: Γαλλικό Κόμμα, romanized: Galliko Komma), presenting itself as the Constitutional Party (Greek: Συνταγματικό Κόμμα), was one...

"Turkocracy", even extended to the use of German alongside Greek in the state administration. Greek politicians constantly demanded an end to this state of...

that established the Kingdom of Greece in 1832. The political history of modern Greece begins with the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Although...

city walls on the left. A part of this force included a battalion of Greek volunteers who had joined forces with the Russians early in February. Using the...

"Foreign persons of Greek origin", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting...

Kolokotronis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης; 3 April 1770 – 4 February 1843) was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence...

for nearly 85% of the Russian Legion's forces. In July the Legion was sent reinforcements made primarily of volunteers from old regiments of the Expeditionary...

The Irish Legion (French: Légion irlandaise) was a light infantry regiment in service of the French Imperial Army established in 1803 for an anticipated...

Some Serbs joined the Greeks, their co-religionists, in the Greek War of Independence (1821–29). Volunteers arrived from Serbia, Montenegro, and territories...