EOKA-B or Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B (EOKA B /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters')...
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The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters') was...
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Georgios Grivas (category EOKA B)
Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). A specialist of guerrilla and asymmetric warfare...
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in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed...
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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"...
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Makarios III (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
believed that with Grivas gone, EOKA-B would disappear as a guerrilla force and could be politically tamed. Numerous EOKA-B members did actually accept the...
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comprised 3 battalions.[full citation needed] Another paramilitary force was EOKA B, which in 1974 had about 5,000 members with 1,000 firearms. Smaller paramilitaries...
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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...
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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...
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Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre (category EOKA B)
Sandallar ve Atlılar katliamı) refers to a massacre of Turkish Cypriots by EOKA B; a Greek Cypriot paramilitary group. On 14 August 1974, after the start...
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Glafcos Clerides (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
the coup (i.e. the conflict between EOKA-B and "Efedriko", a special paramilitary police body formed to fight EOKA-B). In 1976 he founded the Democratic...
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Tochni massacre (category EOKA B)
from the village of Tochni, Larnaca, Cyprus by Greek Cypriot members of EOKA B during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the Summer of 1974. During the...
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1525/curh.1948.15.85.149. JSTOR 45307395. "EOKA-B disbands in aid of unity: The notorious underground EOKA-B movement, responsible for a militant campaign...
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group EOKA B invaded the Turkish Cypriot village of Tochni (in southern Cyprus) and kidnapped and murdered 84 men and boys. On the same day, EOKA-B murdered...
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Cypriot National Guard, under its own leadership and in conjunction with the EOKA-B ultra-nationalist organisation, overthrew the civilian Government of Archbishop...
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Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B (EOKA-B) during Cypriot intercommunal...
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Konstantinos Plevris. He also participated in the Athens local organisation of EOKA-B. He was arrested for the first time in July 1974, during a protest outside...
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junta, a decade later, in 1974, a group of right-wing Greek nationalists, EOKA B, who supported the union of Cyprus with Greece, launched a putsch. This...
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Cypriot intercommunal violence (category EngvarB from May 2020)
or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign...
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League National Youth Organisation EDES Northern Epirus Liberation Front EOKA EOKA B Political parties Napist Party New Party (1873) National Party Liberal...
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police officers, as the rival organization of the paramilitary organization, EOKA B, to fight and if possible, destroy it and to protect the then President...
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by the military junta of Greece. Grivas returned in 1971 and founded the EOKA-B, a militant enosist group, to oppose Makarios. Greece demanded Cyprus submit...
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Turkish invasion of Cyprus Tochni massacre August 14, 1974 Tochni 84 EOKA B EOKA B took 85 hostages from the village of Tochni and the nearby village of...
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Cyprus, in response to the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état which had been staged by EOKA-B and the Cypriot National Guard against president Makarios III with the intention...
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Enosis (category EOKA)
pro-enosis paramilitary group EOKA B was formed, and Makarios declared his opposition to the use of violence to achieve enosis. EOKA B began a series of attacks...
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League National Youth Organisation EDES Northern Epirus Liberation Front EOKA EOKA B Political parties Napist Party New Party (1873) National Party Liberal...
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against the communist side during the Greek Civil War. Grivas later founded EOKA B, which supported the 1974 coup d'état following his death. About 1958, the...
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League National Youth Organisation EDES Northern Epirus Liberation Front EOKA EOKA B Political parties Napist Party New Party (1873) National Party Liberal...
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Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. The Greek Cypriot terrorist organization EOKA B, which had overthrown the government of Cyprus in 1974 and carried out massacres...
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an ancient greek word means union for battle, defensive alliance, league. ^b senate "Νεολαία NIKH". Νεολαία NIKH. "New Democracy maintains solid lead,...
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