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Great Schism
Confederation troops march in Elpis in a victory parade, 1912.
Date 5 June 1907 - 12 December 1912 (5 years, 6 months and 1 week) Location Afthonia Result Confederation victory Territorial changes Dissolution of the Afthonian Commonwealth Afthonian Confederation reorganized as the Unitary State of Afthonia
Belligerents
Confederation	Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Alexei Terzelis Ignatios Moraitas Stefanos Stavroulis Agathe Vlahea Xenia Georgaki	Savvina Stathoti Sotirios Petropoulos Agisilaos Antoniotis Evangelos Tassides Andriana Maroti Dimitrios Hondrallis
Strength
1,370,000 troops	930,000 troops
Casualties and losses
160,000+ KIA/DOW 240,000+ accident/disease deaths 400,000+ total dead 560,000+ wounded 960,000+ casualties	105,000+ KIA/DOW 225,000+ accident/disease deaths 340,000+ total dead 360,000+ wounded 7000,000+ casualties
XXX civilians dead

The Great Schism or the Afthonian Civil War (5 June 1907 - 12 December 1912) was a civil war in Afthonia between the Confederation and the Commonwealth, the latter were formed by member-state that secceeded from the Afthonian Confederation. While many factors contributed to the start of the war contemporary historians generally agree that the gradual centralization of powers from the member states of the Confederation to itself led to a dispute between member states who wanted a stronger Confederation known as the centrists against those who were against it and were referred to as the populists.