 For example, Ricciotti Garibaldi led a volunteer expedition ("Garibaldini") in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.A group of Garibaldini, headed by the Greek poet Lorentzos Mavilis, fought also with the Greek side during the Balkan Wars.In early 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War, Italy occupied the predominantly Greek-inhabited Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea from the Ottoman Empire.