History of modern Greece

When the 17-year-old Bavarian Prince Otto was installed by the London Conference of 1832 as King of Greece, he adopted the Greek name Othon. His troubled reign lasted for 30 years before he and his wife Queen Amalia left the way they came, aboard a British warship. During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of orderly government on the turbulent Greeks. Nevertheless they laid the foundations of a Greek administration, army, justice sys ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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When the 17-year-old Bavarian Prince Otto was installed by the London Conference of 1832 as King of Greece, he adopted the Greek name Othon. His troubled reign lasted for 30 years before he and his wife Queen Amalia left the way they came, aboard a Greek warship. During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of orderly government on the turbulent Greeks. Nevertheless they laid the foundations of a Greek administration, army, justice syste ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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Venizelos formed a secret alliance with Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia, and in October 1912 they all declared war on the Ottomans (see Balkan Wars). The Ottomans were rapidly defeated, and the four allies rushed to grab as much territory as they could. The Greeks occupied Thessaloniki and found themselves in a race with the Bulgarians to capture Constantinople. But the great powers intervened to save the Ottomans, and peace was agreed to in December. The four allies soon fell out over their new territories, and in June 1913 Greece and Serbi ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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Greece suffered terrible privations during World War II, since the Germans appropriated most of the country's agricultural production and prevented its fishing fleets from operating. By 1944 the Greeks were starving. Several resistance movements sprang up in the mountains, and soon the Germans controlled only the main towns and the connecting roads. The largest resistance group, the National Popular Liberation Army (ELAS), was controlled by the Communists, and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the Nationa ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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King Alexander died suddenly in October 1920, having been bitten by a monkey. A few days later Venizelos was defeated at elections and Dimitrios Rallis, a well-known Royalist, became Prime Minister. After a disputed plebiscite, Constantine returned to the throne. The traumas of the war and postwar years left Greece bankrupt, demoralised and bitterly divided between Venizelist republicans and conservative monarchists, and struggling to absorb the flood of refugees from Turkey. Nevertheless these events, by killing off the Megali Idea and producing a more ethnically ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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Italian troops crossed the border on October 28, 1940, but determined Greek defenders drove the invaders back into Albania (see Greco-Italian_War). Metaxas died suddenly in January 1941: he had been transformed from an unpopular dictator into a national leader by his defiance of Mussolini, and his death was a great loss. Greece suffered terrible privations during World War II, since the Germans appropriated most of the country's agricultural production and prevented its fishing fleets from operating. By 1944 the Greeks were starving. ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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At the urging of Britain and King George, Greece adopted a much more democratic constitution in 1864. The powers of the King were reduced and the Senate was abolished. The franchise was extended to all adult males. But Greek politics remained heavily dynastic, as it has been ever since. Family names such as Zaimis, Rallis and Trikoupis occurred repeatedly as Prime Minister. Two broad parties existed: liberals, led first by Charilaos Trikoupis and later by Eleftherios Venizelos, and conservatives, led initially by Theodoros Deligiannis and la ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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Venizelos formed a secret alliance with Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia, and in October 1912 they all declared war on the Ottomans (see Balkan Wars). The Ottomans were rapidly defeated, and the four allies rushed to grab as much territory as they could. The Greeks occupied Thessaloniki and found themselves in a race with the Bulgarians to capture Constantinople. But the great powers intevened to save the Ottomans, and peace was agreed to in December. The four allies soon fell out over their new territories, and in June 1913 Greece and Serbia ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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King Alexander died suddenly in October 1920, having been bitten by a monkey. A few days later Venizelos lost the elections. Venizelos departed to England and Dimitrios Rallis, a well-known Royalist, became prime minister. Twenty days later, after a disputed plebiscite, Constantine returned to the throne. The previous day the Greek government was notified by the Entente powers that if Constantine were to return to the throne, they would not continue to support Greece. This was the beginning of the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor. Although one of ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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After the civil war, Greece sought to join the Western democracies and became a member of NATO in 1952. From 1952 to late 1963, Greece was governed by conservative parties: the Greek Rally of Marshal Alexander Papagos, and its successor, the National Radical Union (ERE) of Constantine Karamanlis. In 1963, the Center Union Party of George Papandreou was elected, and governed until July 1965. It was followed by a succession of unstable coalition governments. On April 21, 1967, just before scheduled elections, a group of right-wing colon ...

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History of modern Greece, History of modern Greece - Treaty of London, History of modern Greece - Reign of King Othon 1833–1863, History of modern Greece - Reign of King George I 1864–1913, History of modern Greece - Wars and crises 1913–1920, History of modern Greece - Republic and Monarchy 1920–1940, History of modern Greece - World War and Civil war 1940–1949, History of modern Greece - Postwar Greece 1950–present

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