11th Infantry Division (Greece)

11th Infantry Division ΧI Μεραρχία Πεζικού (ΧI ΜΠ)
Flag and Emblem of the 11th Infantry Division
Active	1913–1941, 1945–2004
Country	Greece
Branch	Hellenic Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Thessaloniki, after 1951 Kavala
Motto(s)	Alone Or With Others' Support ΜΟΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑ ΠΟΛΛΩΝ
Engagements	Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), Greco-Italian War, Greek Civil War

The 11th Infantry Division (Greek: ΧI Μεραρχία Πεζικού (ΧI ΜΠ); ΧI Merarchía Pezikoú) was an infantry division of the Hellenic Army.

It was the first division to be founded after the Balkan Wars, when the peacetime army was greatly expanded. Initially formed at Kozani, in December 1913 it was ordered transferred to Thessaloniki as part of III Army Corps. At the time it comprised the 13th, 27th and 28th Infantry Regiments.

In August 1916, the Division under Col. Nikolaos Trikoupis remained loyal to the royal government and tried to oppose the Venizelist uprising that led to the establishment of the Provisional Government of National Defence, but was thwarted by the intervention of the French Army.

Following the Greek landing at Smyrna and the creation of the Smyrna Zone, in 1920 the Magnesia Division (Μεραρχία Μαγνησίας) was formed from Anatolian Greek recruits and named after Magnesia. After the Venizelist defeat in the November 1920 elections, the new royalist government renamed the division as the 11th Infantry Division. The division took part in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, where it was surrounded and captured at Mudanya after the Turkish breakthrough of the Greek front in August 1922. Reformed after the end of the war, again at Thessaloniki under III Corps. In 1940–41 the division took part in the Greco-Italian War until the German invasion of Greece in April 1941.