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The failure of the counter-coup forced the King to leave Greece definitively; The Velos mutiny [ el ] on 23 May 1973 against the Regime of the Colonels. The crew of the destroyer HNS Velos (D-16) , under the command of Nikolaos Pappas , demanded political asylum in Italy , while the rest of the mutiny in Greek territory is suppressed;
Greece: Following the defeat in the Asia Minor Campaign, Venizelist army officers, chief amongst them Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas, led the Greek Army in revolt against the royal government and forced the renewed abdication of King Constantine I of Greece. Albania: A failed coup d'état attempt was led by Bajram Curri, Elez Isufi ...
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History of modern Greece and timeline of modern Greek history; A Man, book by Oriana Fallaci about Alexandros Panagoulis, a would-be assassin and resistance fighter. "Imaste dio", a song by Mikis Theodorakis; Your Neighbor's Son, a 1976 Danish docudrama about the making of the junta torturers; Loafing and Camouflage, a 1984 Greek film. White ...
The resulting Goudi coup on 15 August 1909 marked a watershed in modern Greek history: as the military conspirators were inexperienced in politics, they asked Venizelos, who had impeccable liberal credentials, to come to Greece as their political adviser. Venizelos quickly established himself as a powerful political figure, and his allies won ...
The Athenian coup of 411 BC was the result of a revolution that took place during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. The coup overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens and replaced it with a short-lived oligarchy known as the Four Hundred .
The terms Apostasia (Greek: Αποστασία, "Apostasy") or Iouliana (Greek: Ιουλιανά, "July events") or the Royal Coup (Greek: Το Βασιλικό Πραξικόπημα To Vasiliko Praxikopima) are used to describe the political crisis in Greece centered on the resignation, on 15 July 1965, of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou and subsequent appointment, by King Constantine II ...
The Goudi coup (Greek: κίνημα στο Γουδί, romanized: kinima sto Goudi) was a military coup d'état that took place in Greece on the night of 28 August [O.S. 15 August] 1909, [1] starting at the barracks in Goudi, a neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Athens.