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	Eleftherios Venizelos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venizelos became leader of the opposition, and when matters came to a head, led an armed insurgency, which eventually forced the prince to leave the island.
		Venizelos moved to Athens and through the elections of August 8, 1910, he and his team were elected members of the Parliament.
		The debates of Venizelos with Prince Constantine I on the route of the Army and which cities should be first liberated are very well known.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleutherios_Venizelos (869 words)

	Eleutherios Venizelos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Venizelos movedto Athens and through the elections of August 8, 1910, he and his team were elected members of the Parliament.
		The debates of Venizelos with Prince Constantine I on the route of the Army and which citiesshould be first liberated are very well known.
		Now, Venizelos promised to keep the neutrality, but Bulgaria 's attack to Serbia, with whichthere was an alliance treaty, obliged him not to stay neutral.
	www.therfcc.org /eleutherios-venizelos-201529.html (736 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Eleutherios Venizelos
		Eleutherios Venizelos (1864-1936) is generally regarded as the greatest Greek statesman of modern times.
		Venizelos came out strongly in favour of providing military assistance to the Allies during the disastrous Dardanelles campaign; however, continued disagreement with Constantine resulted in Venizelos' resignation in March 1915.
		Venizelos returned to power in 1924, and again from 1928-32 and in 1933; between 1928-32, although by now elderly, Venizelos oversaw modernisation of the country's economy and education system.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/venizelos.htm (724 words)

	Eleftherios Venizelos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Crete, he studied law at the University of Athens, then returned to Crete where he was elected to the local Assembly for the Liberal Party.
		It was the first conflict between Venizelos and Constantine who became a king after his father's assassination in 1913.
		Now, Venizelos promised to keep the neutrality, but Bulgaria's attack to Serbia, with which there was an alliance treaty, obliged him not to stay neutral.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/eleftherios_venizelos (822 words)

	Eleftherios Venizelos - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eleftherios Venizelos (Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) (August 23, 1864-March 18, 1936) was probably the most significant politician of modern Greece.
		It was the first conflict between Venizelos and Constantine who became a king after his father's assasination in 1913.
		On May 1917, after the excile of Constantine (On the throne was ascended his second son Alexander), returned to Athens and allied with Entente.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Eleutherios_Venizelos (818 words)

	Venizelos, Eleutherios on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During his first term as Greek premier (1910-15), Venizelos completed the revision of the constitution (1911), undertook military and financial reform, and led Greece through the Balkan Wars (1912-13), in which its territory and population were approximately doubled.
		In 1916 Venizelos established a provisional government at Thessaloníki, which declared war on Germany and Bulgaria, and in 1917, on Constantine's abdication, he became premier for the third time.
		Fearing the restoration of the monarchy, Venizelos joined a last desperate attempt at stemming the royalist tide by armed uprisings (1935) in Athens, Macedonia, and Crete.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/venizelo.asp (679 words)

	First World War.com - Vintage Audio - Eleutherios Venizelos on the British Empire
		Recorded on 16 November 1917 Venizelos spoke (in English) on the inevitable victory of the might of the British Empire when pitted against the Central Powers as led by Germany.
		Officially a neutral country Venizelos favoured a Greek declaration in favour of the Allies specifically with regard to the (ultimately disastrous) Allied Dardanelles campaign.
		Venizelos was nevertheless forced from office by the King in short order, prompting Venizelos to provocatively establish a provisional government based in Thessalonica.
	www.firstworldwar.com /audio/venizelos.htm (308 words)

	Eleutherios Venizelos Biography / Biography of Eleutherios Venizelos Biography Biography
		Eleutherios Venizelos was born in Crete on Aug. 23, 1864.
		Venizelos was the main architect of those commitments, and his efforts to honor them forced his resignation in March 1915.
		Venizelos soon found himself confronted with the popular demand to abolish the monarchy.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-eleutherios-venizelos (754 words)

	Eleftherious Venizelos
		Eleftherios Venizelos was born in Chania, Crete in 1864.
		Venizelos wanted Greece to give military aid to the Allies during the Dardanelles campaign, and when King Constantine I refused to agree, he resigned from office.
		Venizelos led the Greek war effort until the Armistice in November 1918.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWvenizelos.htm (345 words)

	AllRefer.com - Eleutherios Venizelos (Modern Greek History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Eleutherios Venizelos[elefthAr´yOs venEze´lOs] Pronunciation Key, 1864–1936, Greek statesman, b.
		An electoral victory made Venizelos premier again in August, but when the Allies landed forces at ThessalonIki (see Salonica campaigns), Constantine again compelled his resignation (Oct., 1915).
		In 1916 Venizelos established a provisional government at ThessalonIki, which declared war on Germany and Bulgaria, and in 1917, on Constantine's abdication, he became premier for the third time.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Venizelo.html (555 words)

	Greece History: Twentieth Century. Information on the history during the twentieth century
		In Greece, during the twentieth history, the Cretan lawyer Eleutherios Venizelos became prime minister.
		He worked hard for the reunification of Crete with Greece in the 1890s and was chosen in 1909 to direct a new civilian government, after the Goudi coup of the military officers.
		Eleutherios Venizelos set up an allied revolutionary government in Thessaloniki and send troups in the city of Smyrna which had a large Greek population.
	www.greeka.com /greece-twentieth-century.htm (980 words)

	history, mythology, greece
		Venizelos managed to get the country to join the allies though, which resulted in the ostrachism of the king and his son Alexander became the new king.
		Venizelos then took command and his army went into Smyrna, where half a millon Greeks lived 1919.
		The new party was about to reinforce the king when Venizelos and his followers tried to overthrow the new government, but failed and was exiled to Paris where he died a year later.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/general/modern.htm (1582 words)

	March 19, 1936 - Eleutherios Venizelos
		ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS was called everything from the Lion of Crete to the Lenin of Greece.
		Venizelos' last adventure, the abortive revolution, forced him to flee his loved Crete and he died in Paris.
		Venizelos reached the apex of his fame at the Paris peace conference.
	www.annunciation.org /photoarchive/c_3_19_1936.html (187 words)

	Residence of Eleutherios Venizelos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The outer, south staircase was then abolished and replaced by an open balcony on the first floor and a protected entrance on the ground floor.
		The reception halls were all housed on the ground floor and a spacious, open balcony was added to the main facade.
		A typical characteristic of the building was the surrounding area, especially the front garden, which was often taken care of by Eleutherios Venizelos himself.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/213/21307n/e213gn09.html (151 words)

	SUPERIOR FORCE Essay
		He had confused an inquiry from Venizelos on 3 August 1914 concerning the sequestration of coal stocks – the only inquiry from that quarter before Venizelos authorized the delivery of coal to Quadt – with the later inquiry, of 10 August, concerning the position to be adopted with regard to belligerent vessels.
		Venizelos, above all – if he wished to carry to fruition his plan to align Greece with the Entente –; had the most pressing reason to conceal the fact that he, personally, had provided the lifeline Souchon needed if the German ships were to reach the Straits safely.
		For Venizelos the realization came even earlier, to precisely the moment when, at 2 o’clock on the morning of 6 August, he was roused from his sleep by the German Minister who was anxious to secure coal for Souchon, to which request Venizelos readily agreed.
	www.manorhouse.clara.net /book1/essay.htm (9208 words)

	Greece From 1909 to World War II - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		Eleutherios Venizelos, who became prime minister in 1910, thoroughly revamped Greece's economic and social institutions, although his modernization programs were interrupted by a series of wars between 1912 and 1922.
		The institutional reforms of Venizelos, the new skills brought to Greece by refugees from Asia Minor, and increased domestic demand promoted another period of growth and industrialization.
		The last Venizelos administration (1928-32) was another era of modernization in Greece's economic institutions.
	www.photius.com /countries/greece/economy/greece_economy_from_1909_to_world_w~171.html (400 words)

	SUPERIOR FORCE Chapter 11
		Venizelos withheld two vital pieces of information: the Turco-German alliance was referred to as a less alarming ‘military convention’ and, more seriously, he made no mention of the destination of Goeben and Breslau which he must have been aware of; he then tried to undermine the report by hypothesizing that Theotokis had been deliberately misled.
		Venizelos, aware of the Turco-German alliance, advocated a more forward policy safe in the knowledge that Goeben and Breslau were nearing their destination — with his help.
		He had confused the inquiry from Venizelos of 3 August 1914 concerning the sequestration of coal stocks – the only inquiry from that quarter before Venizelos authorized the delivery of coal to Quadt – with the later inquiry, of 10 August, concerning the position to be adopted with regard to belligerent vessels.
	www.manorhouse.clara.net /book1/chapter11.htm (6391 words)

	SUPERIOR FORCE Reviews
		Venizelos’ motives were more complex and varied, but Miller suggests a main one: Once the German ships had strengthened the Ottoman fleet the Sublime Porte would be moved to attack Russia and “with Turkey fully committed, militarily and navally.
		Venizelos played a key role by facilitating the coaling of the German ships so that they could safely approach the Dardanelles, rather than be interned in Athens.
		Venizelos was playing a devious game, trying to bring Greece into the Entente before the German army could be defeated in France, so that rewards could be plucked in the Balkans.
	www.manorhouse.clara.net /book1/reviews.htm (4741 words)

	The Balkan Wars - History - Greece - Europe
		The lesson of the humiliating defeat of 1897 was not lost on Greek statesman Eleutherios Venizelos, who became prime minister of Greece in 1910.
		Born in Crete, Venizelos had labored for the island’s union with Greece.
		Venizelos realized that Greece by itself could not challenge the still considerable might of the Ottoman Empire.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/greece/history/the_balkan_wars.htm (405 words)

	Strategic Myopia: The Vision and Failure of Eleutherios Venizelos - Storming Media
		Abstract: Eleutherios Venizelos was the preeminent Greek statesman of the modern era, and one of the most famous European diplomats of the early twentieth century.
		Venizelos possessed many of the traits of a great strategic leader.
		As a potential strategic leader, Venizelos possessed many imposing qualities: he was a charismatic visionary, a skillful orator, a brilliant diplomat, a successful politician, and an inspiring personality.
	www.stormingmedia.us /83/8349/A834903.html (242 words)

	Eleutherios Venizelos, Greece (1864-1936) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberal International
		Venizelos was the leader of the Cretan movement against Turkish rule until the union of the island with Greece in 1905.
		He led the Liberal Party in the Cretan chamber of deputies and later as Prime Minister of Greece, he promoted the Balkan League against Turkey (1912) and Bulgaria (1913), thus extending the Greek kingdom.
		His sympathies with France and Britain at the outbreak of World War I clashed with those of King Constantine I, and caused Venizelos to establish a provisional rival government at Salonika, and in 1917 forced the King's abdication.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=980 (170 words)

	Constantine Mitsotakis biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like most Greek politicians, he came from a political family: his father and grandfathers were members of parliament, and the great liberal leader Eleutherios Venizelos was his uncle.
		As a relative of Venizelos, Mitsotakis was a traditional Greek liberal, and a member of George Papandreou's Centre Union party.
		But in 1965 he led a group of dissidents known as the "July apostates" who crossed the floor to bring about the fall of Papandreou's government, which earned him the undying hatred of Papandreou loyalists.
	constantine-mitsotakis.biography.ms (655 words)

	Eleutherios Venizelos: Biography of Eleutherios Venizelos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He removed to Athens about 1910, and became prominent in Balkan affairs, organizing the league which made war on Turkey in 1912.
		In 1914, as premier of Greece, Venizelos urged the nation to join the Allies, but was opposed by the pro-German king, Constantine, and resigned the premiership.
		Following the abdication of King Constantine in 1917, he again became premier and actively supported the allied cause.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/V/EleutheriosVenizelos.html (98 words)

	Custom written biography on Eleutherios Venizelos \| Essays on Eleutherios Venizelos
		He won his country over to the Allied side in World War I and then achieved prominence as an international statesman.Eleutherios Venizelos was born in Crete on Aug. 23, 1864.
		The failure of an insurrection in 1889 forced him to flee the island, but as a leader of the 1897 revolt, he saw the Turkish hold on Crete finally broken.
		Not to be suppressed, however, he was again prime minister, from 1928 to 1932 and briefly in 1933.By 1935 a movement to restore the monarchy had gained sufficient power to bring King George II to the throne.
	www.swiftpapers.com /biographies/Eleutherios_Venizelos-28779.html (333 words)

	The Nation, 01/11/1917 - Eleutherios Venizelos by Phoutrides, Aristides E.
		Never has Greece Statesman Eleutherios Venizelos taken a bold step in his active and magnificent career without careful consideration of the difficulties and deep thought on the possible outcome of his undertaking.
		...A CAREFUL student of the life and work of Eleutherios Venizelos will admit that the statesman of modern Greece combines in himself the qualities expressed in the conversation between Artabanus and Xerxes as reported by Herodotus...
		...Never has Venizelos taken a bold step in his active and magnificent career without careful consideration of the difficulties and deep thought on the possible outcome of his undertaking...
	www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v104i2689_06.htm (1794 words)

	SUITORS AND SUPPLIANTS
		When that monarch was ousted in 1917, Venizelos formed a ministry and led Greece into the war on the Allied side.
		Venizelos has had a series of long talks with the Colonel during the past week.
		Venizelos has what he regards as reliable information to the effect that as a substitute to the American mandate he, Wilson, is proposing an international state or administration for Turkey in Europe.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/bonsal/bonsal13.htm (4011 words)

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		In so doing the Allies intended to install in government in Athens the decidedly pro-Allied Eleutherios Venizelos, at present based in exile in Crete, where he had controversially established an alternative Greek government.
		Venizelos had earlier served as Greek Prime Minister until his overtly pro-Allied sentiments led Constantine to seek his effective dismissal.
		Two weeks after this, on 26 June, Venizelos was installed as Prime Minister, replacing Zaimis.
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