After the end of the Great War, the Ottoman Empire collapsed under the weight of military defeat and diplomatic dismemberment.
Its European holdings were ceded to Greece and other successor administrations, while its remaining Anatolian core was left diminished, severed from the imperial arteries that had once sustained it.
In the decades that followed, the eastern Mediterranean entered one of the most stable periods in its modern history. Stability, however, had not come through reconciliation, but through rearrangement.
The treaties that concluded the war did not merely redraw borders; they redefined demographic realities.
Territories long contested between Athens and Constantinople were formally integrated into a Greater Greece, consolidating Hellenic control over the Aegean littoral and the approaches to the Straits.
The Turkish state that emerged from the Ottoman collapse found itself geographically confined and strategically isolated.
