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  2. Greek Civil War - Wikipedia

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    In 1981, in a major turning point in modern Greek history, the centre-left government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) allowed a number of DSE veterans who had taken refuge in communist countries to return to Greece and reestablish their former estates, which greatly helped to diminish the consequences of the Civil War in Greek ...

  3. Greek civil wars of 1823–1825 - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Massacre of the First Sapper Battalion - Wikipedia

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    The massacre of the First Sapper Battalion was the mass murder of 350 Greek soldiers imprisoned in the Makronisos prison island perpetrated by the camp guards and prisoner functionaries belonging to the Third Sapper Battalion. The massacre took place between 29 February and 1 March 1948, during the Greek Civil War.

  5. List of wars involving Greece - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Greece: The Hidden War - Wikipedia

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    Greece: The Hidden War is a 1986 television documentary series about the background to the Greek Civil War.The series, which explores the contribution of British policy and actions to the civil war, was highly controversial and was banned from being reshown in its existing form by the IBA.

  7. Battle of Konitsa - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Konitsa was a conflict of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949); between the Communist led Democratic Army of Greece and the Greek Army of the Kingdom of Greece. It was a failed initiative to capture the northwestern Greek town of Konitsa, in order to establish a capital for the Provisional Democratic Government; a rival authority to the recognized government in Athens.

  8. Hellenic State (1941–1944) - Wikipedia

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    On 10 May 1945, he was arrested in Vienna by Allied forces and sent to Greece, where he was imprisoned. [5] [6] [7] The government did not fulfil its promise to make major efforts to punish collaborators; this contributed to the escalation of political enmities in Greece, which in turn played a part in the outbreak of the Greek civil war. [8]

  9. Category : Battles and operations of the Greek Civil War

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    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"