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	Greece
		Greece was forbidden to attack Constantinople, and in September 1922 the Turks captured Smyrna.
		That Greece did not fall under communist influence was undoubtedly partially due to the massive aid the government received from the USA, under the provisions of the Truman Doctrine.
		Greece's open sympathy and tacit support for EOKA (the Cypriot movement pressing for this union) soon strained its relations with Turkey and Britain, and consequently NATO strength in the eastern Mediterranean was threatened.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019781.html (3983 words)

	This is the Statement of SEN. Joseph R. Biden before the Senate Judiciary Committee
		Greece has had to cope with internal divisions and external threats.
		Greece is now solidly integrated economically and politically in the European Union.
		Greece will have to put its financial house in order if it hopes to take part fully in the ambitious integration that the European Union foresees in the coming years.
	www.senate.gov /comm/judiciary/general/oldsite/jrb3598.htm (488 words)

	World Homes Network - Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Greece was forbidden to attack Constantinople, and on 22 September 1922 the Turks captured Smyrna.
		Shortly afterwards, on 27 August 1923, Greece was embroiled with Italy over the murder of Gen Tellini, the Italian delegate, with the other members of the commission investigating the Albanian boundary, while on Greek soil.
		An agreement between Britain and the exiled Greek government was signed on 1 March respecting the organization and employment of Greek armed forces, and the two governments agreed that among the objects of the war were the `complete liberation of Greece and the reestablishment of her freedom and independence´.
	www.world-homes.net /atlas/europe/Eastern/greece.htm (3557 words)

	Odysseas Elytis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the German occupation and later, after Greece was liberated, he has been unabatedly active, publishing successive collections of poetry and writing essays concerning contemporary poetry and art problems.
		In 1948 he was the representative of Greece at the "International Meetings of Geneva", in 1949 at the Founding Congress of the "International Art Critics Union" in Paris and in 1962 at the "Incontro Romano della Cultura" in Rome.
		Unlike others, he did not turn back to Ancient Greece or Byzantium but devoted himself exclusively to today's Hellenism, of which he attempted - in a certain way based on psychical and sentimental aspects - to build up the mythology and the institutions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odysseus_Elytis (874 words)

	Greece in the Second World War
		Though EAM is controlled by the Greek Communist Party its primary cause for now is the liberation of Greece from the Germans and many of their fighters and supporters are neither left nor right.
		The failure of Mussolini's invasion of Greece which has forced Germany to invade and occupy as well as the food crisis which raises the question of who is actually in charge, has created a serious rift in the Axis.
		The Germans in Greece are in danger of being cut off from their homeland and begin a retreat north.
	www.ahistoryofgreece.com /worldwarII.htm (3801 words)

	Civil War in Greece
		In 1944 Greece is liberated from the German occupation though the celebration is a short one.
		The government was powerless or unwilling to take action and the communist party of Greece publically tells its members to take matters into their own hands, a call to war.
		It is easy to have sympathy for someone who has fought to liberate Greece and is then declared an enemy of the state, hunted down, tortured and made to confess to treason, and then executed or exiled.
	www.ahistoryofgreece.com /civilwar.htm (3975 words)

	1940-1945 [B' WORLD WAR]
		The involvement of Greece in the Second World War took place on 28 October 1940, with Italy declaring war on Greece, to which Mussolini proceeded, on the one hand placing Greece in his expansionist plans in the eastern Mediterannean and on the other hand, trying to demonstrate his capacity for victory to his ally Hitler.
		The German attack, in April 1941, to support Italians, resulted to the occupation of Greece and the transition of the country to the period of Occupation, a period marked by many trials for the Greek people, who in their turn experienced the Nazist "New Order".
		Greece was liberated in October 1944, but the euphoria of Liberation, was immediately succeeded by the impasse of domestic political conflicts.
	www.fhw.gr /chronos/14/en/1940_1945/b_world_war/02.html (421 words)

	ICRC in WW II: relief work in Greece
		How the ICRC helped civilians in Greece during the occupation and afterwards, when thousands of tonnes of food were needed each month to keep people alive.
		Greece: starving children taken in by the Rizarion Seminary in Athens.
		Although Greece was liberated in October 1944, the Dodecanese islands remained under German occupation until 8 May 1945.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/57JNX2?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print (372 words)

	PEACEFUL DEMOSTRATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As mentioned in the rally by one of the prominent figures of New Albanian Generation, Greece should not forget the Albanian role in the modern history of Greece, starting with the revolution that liberated Greece from the Turkish invasion where many Albanian fighters gave a valuable contribution.
		Greece is the only fanatic country within EU who blindly persists of not having minorities in its own soil, when in fact it does.
		A flagrant example is the Greece's retaining of the "Law of War" with Albania enacted in the late '50, time of the then conflict between the two countries.
	www.newalbaniangeneration.com /rally.html (1005 words)

	Greek History page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Greece was again on the side of the Allies.
		However Hitler attacked Greece from the Greek-Yugoslavian borders, and by the end of May 1941, the Germans had overrun most of the country.
		Greece was declared a republic in 1973 and democracy was re-established.
	www.licacatsakis.com /page39.html (412 words)

	General Information
		On October 12, 1944 Greece was liberated from the Nazis.
		Greece, also known as Hellas, is the birthplace of politics as an art and democracy as a form of government.
		Greece is a Mediterranean state at the tip of the Balkan Peninsula, in southeastern Europe, bordering Turkey to the east; Albania, Bulgaria and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to the north; and surrounded by the Ionian and the Aegean seas.
	www.greekembassy.org /Embassy/content/en/Folder.aspx?office=1&folder=8 (272 words)

	Greek history
		On October 12, 1944 Greece was liberated from the Nazis The National Unity government returned from abroad with George Papandreou as prime minister.
		Meanwhile, Greece's borders had grown with the annexation in 1948 of the Dodecanese islands which had been occupied from 1911 to 1943 by the Italians from 1943 to 1945 by the Germans and from 1945 to 1948 by the British.
		In 1981 Greece became the IOth full member of the European Union and in 1981 a new party, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), won the general election and became the governing party.
	www.greeknet.co.uk /tourist_info/history/civilwar.htm (668 words)

	A History of the Orthodox Church: The Orthodox Churches In the 19th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unable either to communicate with the patriarchate or to recognize its excommunications, the bishops of liberated Greece gathered in Nvplion and established themselves as the synod of an autocephalous church (1833).
		The eclesiastical regime adopted in Greece was modelled after that of Russia: a collective state body, the Holy Synod, was to govern the church under strict government control.
		As in Greece, the new church was under the strict control of the pro-Western government of Prince Alexandru Cuza.
	www.orthodoxinfo.com /general/history6.aspx (1572 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Balkan wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Greece offensive was initially towards Monastir, but at the demand of prime minister Velizelos, it was diverted toward Thessalonica to reach it before the advancing Bulgarians.
		Important cities were liberated and incorporated to the state such as Ioannina in Epirus, Thessaloniki, Veria, Kozani, Kavala, Serres in Macedonia and almost all the islands of the Aegean Sea.
		Most of the Aegean island were liberated by Greece after the first balkan war and the desicive defeat of the ottoman fleet.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2350&PN=1 (1953 words)

	Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Between 490 and 479 B.C., Greece was invaded by the army and naval fleet of the Persian Empire.
		The Delian League had its precedents: the Spartan League, the Ionian League of 499-494 B.C. and the League of 481-478 B.C. Eventually, the Greeks liberated the cities of Asia Minor and by 450 B.C., the war with the Persians came to an end.
		The outbreak of the Peloponnesian War prompted THUCYDIDES (c.460-c.400 B.C.) to write a history of its course in the belief that it would be the greatest war in Greek history.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture7b.html (3808 words)

	TDR Online: Wandering the Back Streets of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Greece is the only country in Eastern Europe where unreconstructed Communists, in the form of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), poll so well.
		Greece threw a fit saying that the name represented a claim on the Greek province of Macedonia and its capital, Thessaloniki (or Solun in Macedonian).
		Greece blocked repeated efforts to have the EU and UN recognize the new country, suggesting instead that it should be called the Republic of Skopje.
	www.dartreview.com /issues/1.21.02/hummel2.html (1012 words)

	Greek Civil War
		Organized resistance in Greece was broken and the country suborned to a combined German, Italian, and Bulgarian occupation.
		When the Germans withdrew from Greece in November 1944, the British were able to occupy Athens and establish an interim administration.
		He believed the unrest in Greece and the overt Soviet political actions in Turkey were blatant attempts to establish a strong communist presence in the region.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/greek.htm (2334 words)

	OAT : Classic Greece & the Greek Islands (2006) : Travel Notes
		Shortly thereafter, however, Greece was conquered by the Macedonians (360 B.C. to 300 B.C) and later by the Romans (200 B.C. to 300 A.D.).
		Athens became the capital of a liberated Greece after the end of the War of Independence in 1829.
		In 1974, five months after the restoration of democracy in Greece, the monarchy was formally abolished by plebiscite in favor of a republic.
	www.oattravel.com /gcc/general/default.aspx?oid=112284&linklocation=trip_leftnav (1266 words)

	AllRefer.com - George II, king of Greece (Modern Greek History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hostility to the dynasty was such, however, that George was compelled to leave Greece in 1923; a plebiscite shortly afterward established a republic.
		After the conquest of Greece by Germany and Italy in World War II, George fled (1941) his country.
		When Greece was liberated (1944) the question of the king's return was a major issue in the Greek civil war that began in Dec., 1944.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Georg2Hel.html (349 words)

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		The prospects of Greece, ever since the standard of liberty was raised, ten years ago, have been in a state of constant, and often of rapid change; yet, on the whole, they have been im- proving from that day to this.
		The present dissensions in Greece are des- tined, we trust, to teach permanent lessons of political wisdom to her ardent factions and inexperienced citizens.
		A similar liberality is extended by the Govern- ment of Austria to the dissenting communions in that empire, not excepting the Unitarians of Transylvania.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/nora/nora0034.sgm (19110 words)

	Greece History - The Bronze Age, Hellenic Greece to Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was this Greece of city-states that established colonies along the Mediterranean, resisted Persian invasions, and whose culture would be the basis of Hellenistic civilization that followed the empire of Alexander the Great.
		The beginning of the Bronze Age around 3100 BC is a period of great unrest in Greece, but it also marks the beginning of the region as an important center of civilization.
		From 1952 to late 1963, Greece was governed by conservative parties -- the Greek Rally of Marshal Alexandros Papagos and its successor, the National Radical Union (ERE) of Constantine Karamanlis.
	www.globalvolunteers.org /1main/greece/greecehistory.htm (665 words)

	Hot Mineral Springs
		The chemical analysis of spring water started to be undertaken in liberated Greece from the era of Capodistrias and Otto (1830-1833).
		The definitive morphological configuration presented nowadays by Greece is a consequence of the great subsidence which occurred in the whole geographical region.
		From estimates it is evident that throughout the whole six-month period of May to October, when usually all the great spas in Greece are in service, an average of 40% of the bathings were carried out in the month of September in the year 1995.
	www.island-ikaria.com /nature/springs.asp (3795 words)

	IISH - Today in 1945 : 12 February - Truce in Greece
		Although Greece was liberated from the Nazis on 12 October 1944, that did not end the struggle.
		The book The Sacrifices of Greece in the Second World War was published in 1946.
		The illustrations were exhibited in November 1944 in Greece, and in April-June 1945 in Paris, London, and San Francisco.
	www.iisg.nl /today/en/12-02.php (149 words)

	David Thornley's History of WWII
		Greece began talking with Britain about British assistance, although nervously, since the last thing Greece wanted was enough Imperial force to attract German attention and not enough to defend Greece.
		Greece and Yugoslavia would likely not have entered the war if it had not been for Italian intervention, and all the Axis losses against them were unnecessary.
		Greece was a difficult country to occupy, and Yugoslavia was worse, so further Axis force was tied down.
	www.visi.com /~thornley/david/military/wwii/wwii1941.html (2817 words)

	Nauplion
		With its marble pavements, looming castles and remarkable homogeneous architecture, Nauplion (Náfplio) is the most elegant town in mainland Greece.
		Defended to the south by the Akronafplía and Palamídi fortresses and to the north by Bourtzi castle, the town occupies the northern side of a peninsula at the head of the Argolic Gulf.
		From 1829 until 1834, the town was the first capital of liberated Greece.
	www.grisel.net /nauplion.htm (353 words)

	Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine... price comparison at MSN ...
		Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944-1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine...
		At the end of 1944, the national unity government of newly liberated Greece faced a severe inflationary crisis.
		Success was meager, and by the time the British pulled out of Greece in the spring of 1947, economic stability remained elusive.By analyzing the Greek crisis primarily in economic terms, Athanasios Lykogiannis avoids the political partisanship that has colored much previous writing on the subject and throws light on many issues neglected by earlier authors.
	shopping.msn.com /prices/shp?itemId=2690179 (237 words)

	Euro Has Special Meaning in Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		GORTYN, Greece (AP) - Yannis Karayannakis, a guard at the site where the legend of Europe was born, is all for the euro - although he anticipates some confusion at first.
		Revived in the 1830s when Greece was liberated from the Ottoman Empire's rule, it is a symbol of the country's independence.
		Greece joined the European Union (news - web sites) in 1979 but only signed on to the euro this year, two years behind the others, after a series of painful economic reforms it had to implement to qualify.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/596310/posts (2611 words)

	Greek Spider - Your guide to Greece and Cyprus!
		He was a true patriot and burned with love for his homeland, he ran as did many Greeks to defend their people from impending catastrophe, and died for his beliefs.
		All of enslaved Macedonia and liberated Greece mourned the death of their national hero.
		Out of his death was born the desire throughout Greece that at all costs Macedonia must be liberated and united with Greece.
	www.greekspider.com /moderngreeks/paulosmelas.htm (547 words)

	Info on Greece
		On the second occasion (in the years of the Peisistratids towards the close of the 6th century B.C.), it was adorned with excellent carved gables while a second temple, dedicated to Athena, began to be built further south on the rock.
		American and Canadian citizens entering Greece for a period of less than 3 months require a valid passport, not a visa.
		In this context, Greece has drawn up the Second 5- Year Program of Hellenic Development Aid for the period 2002-2006; an important part of this program, is the Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans (HiPERB).
	www.greekembassy.org /Embassy/content/en/Folder.aspx?office=1&folder=7 (388 words)

	The American School of Classical Studies at Athens: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With a few exceptions, most of the collections were acquired during the directorship of Frank Walton (1961-1976), including the papers of the two Nobel laureates of Greece, poets George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis.
		The Stephanos Skouloudis Papers (1838-1928) -- Prime Minister of Greece (1915-1916) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1897), and Education (1892) Acquired in 1986.
		To continue collecting papers of distinguished political and diplomatic figures of Greece; this thematic area is in full agreement with John Gennadius' interests and pursuits and constitutes a kind of tradition for the Gennadius Library.
	www.ascsa.edu.gr /archives/Gennadius/CollectionPolicy.htm (1056 words)

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