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    A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ; French: [ku deta] ; lit. 'stroke of state'), or simply a coup, is the illegal, forceful overthrow of a government by a military...
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    PBSuccess. 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: A military coup brings Alfredo Stroessner to power. Coup d'état of Yanaon: A coup d'état led by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya...
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  • The Coup d'état of December Twelfth or the 12·12 Military Insurrection (Korean: 12·12 군사 반란; Hanja: 十二十二軍事反亂) was a military mutiny which took place on...
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  • This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government...
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    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led...
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  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is a 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez about the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln...
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    question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically...
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    The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 was a self-coup staged by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III), at the time President of France under the Second...
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  • The Syrian coup d'état may refer to: The March 1949 Syrian coup d'état, overthrow of Shukri al-Quwatli The August 1949 Syrian coup d'état [pl], overthrow...
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    The 1966 Syrian coup d'état refers to events between 21 and 23 February during which the government of the Syrian Arab Republic was overthrown and replaced...
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    The 1963 Syrian coup d'état, labelled in Ba'athist historiography as the "March 8 Revolution" (Arabic: ثورة الثامن من آذار), was the seizure of power...
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    Turkish coup d'état attempt 1969 Turkish coup d'état attempt [tr] 1971 Turkish coup d'état attempt [tr] 2007: E-memorandum 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt...
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    The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi, lit. 'September 12 coup d'état'), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was...
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    Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August (Romanian: Actul de la 23 august), was a coup d'état led by King...
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    the coronation of Napoleon as Emperor of the French. This bloodless coup d'état overthrew the Directory, replacing it with the French Consulate. This...
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    A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a political leader, having come...
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  • The Syrian coup d'état of 1961 was an uprising by disgruntled Syrian Army officers on 28 September 1961, that resulted in the break-up of the United Arab...
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    self-coup by South Korean President Park Chung-hee Coup d'état of December Twelfth – 1979 coup d'état in South Korea that brought Chun Doo-hwan to power...
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    The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador...
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  • sentenced to death in absentia. March 1949 Syrian coup d'état 1963 Syrian coup d'état 1966 Syrian coup d'état List of modern conflicts in the Middle East The...
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    coup d'état, also known as the 9 September coup d'état (Bulgarian: Деветосептемврийски преврат, romanized: Devetoseptemvriyski prevrat), was a coup that...
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  • The March 1949 Syrian coup d'état was a bloodless coup d'état that took place on 30 March. It was the first military coup in modern Syrian history and...
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  • On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger when the country's presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, and Presidential Guard commander...
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    The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (Golpe de Estado en Guatemala de 1954) deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and marked...
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    Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, attempted a coup d'état against state institutions, including the government and president Recep...
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    Brazilian coup d'état (Portuguese: Golpe de estado no Brasil em 1964) was the overthrow of Brazilian president João Goulart by a military coup from March...
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  • Somali coup d'état may refer to: 1978 Somali coup d'état attempt 1969 Somali coup d'état This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    The Coup Belt (French: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region...
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    The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or the Counter-revolution is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led...
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  • coups d'état in the state of Iraq, and one attempt. 1936 Iraqi coup d'état, Baqr Sidki took power by a military coup in Iraq 1941 Iraqi coup d'état,...
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