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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 .
Albanian involvement in the Greek Civil War ceased only in the late summer of 1949, when it became clear that the communist-led Greek guerrillas would be defeated by the Greek national forces. [21] The Albanian government fearing an attack by the Greek army, disarmed the communist guerrillas that were located in Albania and insisted that the ...
The result of the battle gave the Greek army the upper hand toward DAG, a position held throughout the remaining months of the civil war resulting in eventual total victory. [11] [12] The outcome of the battle and civil war was viewed in Greece as having preserved the northern sovereign borders of the state. [13]
This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other Greek colonies (First Greek colonisation, Second Greek colonisation, Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco ...
Lucan in his poem about the Civil War regularly uses the name Pharsālia, and this term is also used by the epitomiser of Livy and by Tacitus. [19] The only ancient sources to refer to the battle as being at Pharsalus are a certain calendar known as the Fasti Amiternini and the Greek authors Plutarch, Appian, and Polyaenus. [19]
This category contains historical battles fought as part of the Greek Civil War (1946–1949). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Greek Civil War"
In political history, stasis (Ancient Greek: στάσις in the sense of "faction, discord"; plural: staseis) refers to an episode of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state or polis. It was the result of opposition between groups of citizens, fighting over the constitution of the city or over social and economic problems. [1]
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 ...