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The polarization and instability of Greek politics in the mid-1960s was a direct result of the Civil War and the deep divide between the leftist and rightist sections of Greek society. A major crisis as a result was the murder of the left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963, the inspiration for the Costa Gavras political thriller Z .
War Start of the war Finish of the war Notes Trojan War: ca. 1194 BCE or between 1260 BCE ca. 1199 BCE and 1240 BCE No one knows exactly the years the war took place. 1260 and 1240 BCE. The Greek poet Homer wrote about this war in his epic poem Iliad.
A series of National Assemblies ensued, while Greece was threatened with collapse due to civil war and the victories of Ibrahim Pasha. In 1827, the Third National Assembly at Troezen selected Count Ioannis Kapodistrias as Governor of Greece for seven years. He arrived in 1828 and established the Hellenic State, commanding with quasi-dictatorial ...
Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) Battle of Afyonkarahisar-Eskişehir; World War II. Greco-Italian War (1940–1941) Battle of Greece (1941) Battle of Crete (1941) First Battle of El Alamein (1942) Second Battle of El Alamein (1942) Invasion of Normandy (1944) Greek Civil War (1945–1949) Korean War (1950–1953) Kosovo Force
The war, which lasted from 1946 to 1949, was characterised by guerilla warfare between the KKE forces and Greek governmental forces mainly in the mountain ranges of northern Greece. The war ended with the NATO bombing of Mount Grammos and the final defeat of the KKE forces. The civil war left Greece with a legacy of political polarization.
The Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 occurred alongside the Greek War of Independence. The conflict had both political and regional dimensions, as it pitted the Roumeliotes , who lived in mainland Greece, and shipowners from the Islands, primarily Hydra island, against the Peloponnesians or Moreotes .
History of Greece (1864–1909) History of Greece (1909–1924) History of Greece (1924–1941) Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935) 4th of August Regime (1936–1941) Greece in World War II (1940–1944) Greek Civil War (1944–1949) History of Greece (1949–1974) Greek military junta of 1967–1974; History of Greece since 1974
This category concerns the events, people, etc, related to the Greek Civil War of 1946–1949. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.