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The conflict, which erupted shortly after the end of World War II, consisted of a Communist-led uprising against the established government of the Kingdom of Greece. The rebels declared a people's republic , the Provisional Democratic Government of Greece , which was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military branch, the ...
1897, January: Cretan Rebellion. Greece refuses a Turkish offer of an autonomous administration in Crete and mobilizes for war. 1897, 25 February: Greece refuses to withdraw the Greek volunteers from Crete. The Great Powers announce a blockade of Greece. 1897, 17 April: The Ottoman Empire declares war against Greece. Greco-Turkish War (1897).
Rebellion eventually defeated by Xerxes I, Babylon's fortifications were destroyed and its temples were ransacked. [17] 464 BC Third Messenian War: Sparta: Messenian Helots: Slave revolt put down by Archidamus II, who called Sparta to arms in the wake of an earthquake. [18] 460–454 BC Inaros' revolt Egypt, Achaemenid Empire: Inaros II and his ...
The Movement for the Reorganization of the Communist Party of Greece 1918–1955 (Greek: Κίνηση για την Ανασύνταξη του ΚΚΕ 1918–1955), is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Greece. It is better known as Anasintaxi (Reorganization).
The communist guerrillas, led by Siantos, evacuated the capital taking thousands of hostages. During their retreat to central Greece, many of them died from the cold or hardships. ELAS took hostages in order to dissuade the RAF from attacking it during its retreat.
[4] [5] After the success of the preceding Operation Pyravlos, communist forces in central Greece had been defeated [6] and only the mountain strongholds of Grammos and Vitsi in northwestern Greece remained under their control. [2] [3] Yugoslavian assistance to the communists had come to an end in February 1949 amid the Tito–Stalin split. [2]
3 September 1843 Revolution, which forced King Otto to grant Greece its first Constitution; 23 October 1862 Revolution , leading to the departure of King Otto and his queen , first step towards the 1862 Greek head of state referendum which resulted in Prince William of Denmark becoming George I , the King of the Hellenes;
The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front (EAM), was controlled by the Communist Party of Greece, as was the Greek People's Liberation Army , led by Aris Velouchiotis, and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League (EDES) in those areas liberated from the Germans.