Popular movements calling for '' enosis '' ( the incorporation of disparate Greek-populated territories into a greater Greek state ) resulted in the accession of Crete ( 1908 ) , Ionian Islands ( 1864 ) and Dodecanese ( 1947 ) . Calls for '' enosis '' were also a feature of Cypriot politics during British Rule . During the troubled interwar years , some Greek nationalists viewed Orthodox Christian Albanians , Aromanians and Bulgarians as communities that could be assimilated into the Greek nation . Greek irredentism , the " Megali Idea " suffered a setback in the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ) , and the Greek genocide . Since then , Greco-Turkish relations have been characterized by tension between Greek and Turkish nationalism , culminating in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 )
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