• The Treaty of Varkiza (Greek: Συμφωνία της Βάρκιζας, also known as the Varkiza Pact or the Varkiza Peace Agreement) was signed in Varkiza (near Athens)...
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    Varkiza (Greek: Βάρκιζα), also formerly Alianthos (Αλίανθος), is a town and a suburb of greater Athens forming part of the municipality of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni...
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    the Treaty of Nonaggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also known as the Treaty of Vis. Also known as the Varkiza Pact...
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    Truman Doctrine (category History of the foreign relations of the United States)
    terms of the Treaty of Varkiza, which marked the end of ELAS and broke EAM's power. This was followed by the White Terror, a period of persecution against...
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  • EAM-ELAS was defeated, and the disarmament of the organization in the Treaty of Varkiza (February 1945). The Varkiza Agreement was never fully implemented...
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    Greek Civil War (category History of modern Greece)
    Greek parties signed the Treaty of Varkiza, with the support of all the Allies. It provided for the complete demobilisation of the ELAS and all other paramilitary...
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  • persecution of the EAM-ELAS between the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza in February 1945 and the beginning of the Greek Civil War in March 1946 White Terror...
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    few months after the Treaty of Varkiza the anticommunist violence on the Greek mainland had resulted in the imprisonment or exile of 100,000 ELAS partisans...
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  • Ultimately, the promises enshrined in the Treaty of Varkiza were not upheld. The main problem was that the treaty gave amnesty only for political reasons...
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    Dekemvriana (category Battles and operations of the Greek Civil War)
    Communist Party signed in February 1945 the Treaty of Varkiza in an effort of accord. On 25 January 1945, a mass grave of about 200 people was found in Athens...
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    romanized: Prosoriní Dimokratikí Kyvérnisi) was the name of the administration declared by the Communist Party of Greece on 24 December 1947, during the Greek Civil...
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  • This is a list of wars involving the Union of South Africa and its successor, the Republic of South Africa. 1981 Seychelles coup d'état attempt Commonwealth...
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    disarmament of the communist-dominated EAM-ELAS resistance movement in the aftermath of the Treaty of Varkiza (February 1945) was followed by period of political...
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    to disarm at the Treaty of Varkiza, in January 1945, it surrendered only a few token weapons and withdrew into the mountainous areas of Greece, where it...
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    security police force. After the liberation of Greece from the Axis occupation, the Dekemvriana and the Varkiza Agreement (in which ELAS, the main Partisan...
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    Operation Albumen (category Acts of sabotage)
    German airfields in the Axis-occupied Greek island of Crete, to prevent them from being used in support of the Axis forces in the Western Desert Campaign...
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    truce it was not made possible to settle the question of the hostages". A conference at Varkiza to settle the conflict opened on 2 February 1945, where...
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    Markos Vafeiadis (category 20th-century prime ministers of Greece)
    many areas of Greece. At the beginning of Ioannis Metaxas' dictatorship (the "4th of August Regime") he was exiled again to the island of Ai Stratis,...
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    Holocaust of Kalavryta (Ολοκαύτωμα των Καλαβρύτων), was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta...
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    the Cretan ELAS did not surrender its weapons after the Treaty of Varkiza. The Cretan branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) was well aware that the...
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    Alpha Bank (category Banks of Greece)
    due to the events of Dekemvriana and after the Treaty of Varkiza the decision of the directors would be revised. In 1947 the name of the bank was changed...
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    ELAS (category Military wings of communist parties)
    clashes and the Varkiza Agreement, it was disarmed and disbanded. ELAS was the largest and most significant of the military organizations of the Greek resistance...
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    Sacred Squadron (Greece) (category Commander's Crosses of the Cross of Valour (Greece))
    formed in 1942 in the Middle East, composed mostly of Greek officers and officer cadets under the command of Col. Christodoulos Tsigantes. It fought alongside...
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    Dodecanese campaign (category Mediterranean Sea operations of World War II)
    capture and occupation of the Dodecanese islands by German forces during World War II. Following the signing of the Armistice of Cassibile on 3 September...
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  • Patrick Leigh Fermor (category Commanders of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece))
    seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between...
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  • National Liberation Front (Macedonia) (category Communist Party of Greece)
    liberation of Greece and the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza in February 1945, there was no sign of possible political stabilization of the country...
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    surrender its weapons after the Treaty of Varkiza. An uneasy truce was maintained until 1947, with a series of arrests of notable communists in Chania and...
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    The Battle of Crete (German: Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Greek: Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major...
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    the British and Greek government forces. In accordance with the Treaty of Varkiza of February 1945, ELAS disarmed, leaving its supporters vulnerable to...
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    Georgios Papandreou (category Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as prime minister of Greece (1944–1945, 1963, 1964–1965)...
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