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Eleftherios Venizelos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eleutherios Venizelos (1864-1936) is generally regarded as the greatest Greek statesman of modern times. ... The first half of Venizelos' life and career was spent in Crete, where he was born on 23 August 1864. ... Photograph of Eleutherios Venizelos...
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Eleutherios Venizelos to the Greek Army, 30 September 1918 ... The moment was consequently considered ripe for a major Allied offensive against Bulgarian forces, newly aided by a Greek force donated by pro-Allied Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos. The Allied forces in the region were led by French General Franchet...
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"ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS (1864-), Greek statesman, was born at Mournies, in the island of Crete, on Aug. 2 3 1864, of a family that emigrated from Mistra (near Sparta) to Crete in 1770. His father, a merchant of Canea, took an active part in the Cretan patriotic movement and was therefore exiled by the Turks in 1866,
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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.
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Eleutherios Venizelos; ELEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS was called everything from the Lion of Crete to the Lenin of Greece. The range of descriptions, whether by friend or foe, indicates the many-sided activity of the man.
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The building was constructed in around 1880 as a villa, in the square of Chalepa, the suberb of Chania. ... It assumed its present form in 1927 when Eleutherios Venizelos himself undertook the task to renovate the house. The outer, south staircase was then abolished and replaced by an open balcony on the first floor and...
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