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  2. List of lighthouses in Greece - Wikipedia

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    This lighthouse was built in 1892 by the French Lighthouse Company. The lighthouse initially operated with oil and radiation around 23 nmi (43 km). It was extinguished during World War II and resumed operation in 1945. In 1983 it was electrified and became fully automated in 1988. Cape Lefkada Lighthouse: Ionian Sea: Lefkada: Cape Doukato

  3. Thridrangaviti Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] It was completed around the start of WWII in 1939, but the lamp equipment ordered from a Danish company could not be delivered because Denmark was then occupied by Germany. As a result there was a delay of three years to install lighting, now supplied by Britain. [6] [5] The lighthouse was commissioned on 5 July 1942. [5]

  4. History of lighthouses - Wikipedia

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    However, Themistocles had earlier established a lighthouse at the harbour of Piraeus connected to Athens in the 5th century BC, essentially a small stone column with a fire beacon. [3] Lesches, a Greek poet (c. 660 BC), mentions a lighthouse at Sigeion in the Troad. This appears to have been the first light regularly maintained for the guidance ...

  5. Military history of Greece during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The military history of Greece during World War II began on 28 October 1940, when the Italian Army invaded Greece from Albania, beginning the Greco-Italian War. The Greek Army temporarily halted the invasion and pushed the Italians back into Albania. The Greek successes forced Nazi Germany to intervene.

  6. Great Famine (Greece) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Famine Μεγάλος Λιμός; Country: Greece: Location: Most of Greece (urban, rural areas, islands) Period: 1941–1942: Total deaths: Est. 300,000 [1] [2] (mortality rate reached a peak in the winter of 1941–1942, and 150,000 just in 1941 alone) [3] Nazi claim at the time: ~70,000

  7. German invasion of Greece - Wikipedia

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    This is an argument that historians used to assert that Greek resistance was a turning point in World War II. [184] According to film-maker and friend of Adolf Hitler Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler said that "if the Italians hadn't attacked Greece and needed our help, the war would have taken a different course. We could have anticipated the Russian ...