The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters') was...
66 KB (8,244 words) - 19:41, 15 October 2024
EOKA-B or Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B (EOKA B /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters')...
13 KB (1,335 words) - 14:46, 20 November 2024
Cyprus Emergency (category EOKA)
April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an...
41 KB (4,554 words) - 02:48, 21 November 2024
Georgios Grivas (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). A specialist of guerrilla and asymmetric warfare...
27 KB (2,779 words) - 14:40, 31 October 2024
junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed...
116 KB (11,849 words) - 22:10, 21 November 2024
Makarios III (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
Fighters), or EOKA. This was a typical independence movement of the period. Makarios undoubtedly had common political ground with EOKA and was acquainted...
31 KB (3,744 words) - 07:57, 23 October 2024
Polycarpos Giorkatzis (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
an independent state. Before entering the political stage he fought for EOKA. His political career evolved from a staunch supporter of Makarios to becoming...
13 KB (1,184 words) - 08:26, 27 October 2024
Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA) which led to the start of the Cyprus Emergency. Multiple British locations were attacked after midnight by EOKA members. This attack...
4 KB (303 words) - 06:25, 22 October 2024
Nikos Sampson (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
acting President of Cyprus during the 1974 coup. A former journalist and EOKA militant pardoned under the London and Zürich Agreements, Sampson was first...
19 KB (1,958 words) - 14:59, 11 November 2024
organisation to counter the Greek Cypriot Fighter's Organization EOKA (later "EOKA-B"). The name of the organization was changed twice. In 1967 to "Mücahit"...
10 KB (1,001 words) - 13:43, 31 October 2024
engagement during the Cyprus Emergency. The EOKA planned a raid to rescue Polykarpos Giorkatzis, an EOKA prisoner who had been transferred to hospital...
2 KB (79 words) - 19:38, 9 October 2024
Cyprus by Bus. Retrieved 20 March 2013. Central Bank Of Cyprus - Working Hours & Bank Holidays Nicos Anastasiades pay tribute to EOKA liberation struggle...
2 KB (114 words) - 01:24, 22 February 2024
Evagoras Pallikarides (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
March 1957) was a Greek-Cypriot poet and revolutionary who was a member of EOKA during the 1955–1959 campaign against British rule in Cyprus. He was arrested...
9 KB (946 words) - 11:45, 27 October 2024
Cyprus. The Liberty Monument was erected in 1973 to honor the anti-British EOKA fighters of the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–1959. It is located at the Podocattaro...
2 KB (142 words) - 17:08, 30 October 2024
Emergency. British soldiers in the village of Liopetri were attacked by an EOKA team of four who were subsequently killed in the ensuing fire fight. The...
3 KB (228 words) - 11:54, 17 September 2024
Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston – EOKA). On 1 April 1955, EOKA opened an armed campaign against British rule in a coordinated...
145 KB (17,242 words) - 21:58, 21 November 2024
violence escalated with a campaign against the colonial power organised by EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston). Its leader, Colonel George Grivas...
29 KB (3,621 words) - 14:41, 18 September 2024
January 1957) was a Greek Cypriot guerrilla fighter who was killed in the EOKA struggle (1955–1959) against the British. His nom de guerre was Lykourgos...
5 KB (363 words) - 08:27, 27 October 2024
or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign...
46 KB (5,448 words) - 05:33, 30 October 2024
the violent tactics followed by the anti-British resistance movement of EOKA. EOKA accused AKEL of being collaborators with the British, even though AKEL...
27 KB (1,827 words) - 20:03, 22 October 2024
Glafcos Clerides (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
independence, first as a member of the anti-colonial guerilla organization EOKA and later in the drafting of the country's constitution. He then served as...
16 KB (1,410 words) - 14:52, 22 October 2024
still pursued the Megali Idea, would later found the guerrilla organisation EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston or National Organisation of Cypriot...
214 KB (20,751 words) - 14:39, 19 November 2024
Africa. In Cyprus, a guerrilla war waged by the Greek Cypriot organisation EOKA against British rule, was ended in 1959 by the London and Zürich Agreements...
155 KB (17,678 words) - 16:06, 19 November 2024
anti-terrorist operations against the EOKA guerrillas during the independence war against the British. The EOKA were a small, but powerful organisation...
103 KB (10,204 words) - 13:13, 19 November 2024
from the original on 13 May 2019. The EOKA rebelled against the British colonial government on April 1, 1955. EOKA insurgents attacked police stations in...
125 KB (11,921 words) - 09:05, 17 November 2024
extremist military junta took power in Greece, it supported the far-right EOKA-B group against Makarios. Dimitrios Ioannidis, the de facto leader of the...
17 KB (1,557 words) - 04:05, 30 October 2024
Salamis in Cyprus, 361–351 BC Evagoras Pallikarides (1938–1957), Cypriot EOKA fighter Evagoras Hadjifrangiskou (born 1986), Cypriot footballer Evagoras...
786 bytes (114 words) - 19:44, 22 November 2021
Greek Cypriot Fighter's Organization EOKA and Enosis. The organisation was formed to counter the activities of EOKA in 1955 by mostly untrained volunteers...
3 KB (226 words) - 22:43, 21 October 2024
their proper names after the struggle. George Grivas, the Greek-Cypriot EOKA militant, adopted the nom de guerre Digenis (Διγενής). In the French Foreign...
57 KB (6,607 words) - 16:00, 16 November 2024
Emergency. British security forces attacked an EOKA guerrilla group in the mountains and captured seven leading EOKA officers including leader Georghis Demetriou...
1 KB (59 words) - 12:57, 1 November 2024