20 mai 1897 - Cretan Independence

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Caused over the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long desired union with Greece, the Greco-Turkish War [also called the Thirty days War] established the independent Cretan State.

Despite the Ottoman victory militarily speaking, an independent Cretan State under Ottoman suzerainty was established as a result of the intervention of the Great Powers after the war, marking the war as a diplomatic Greek victory.

The conflict proved Greece was wholly unprepared for war. Plans, fortifications and weapons were non-existent, and training was inadequate. As a result, the numerically superior, better organized, equipped and led Ottoman forces pushed the Greek forces south out of Thessaly.

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