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The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organization that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus, and for eventual union with Greece.
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A British soldier facing a crowd of demonstrators during the Battle at Nicosia Hospital in 1956
Archbishop Makarios III (here in 1962) was the political leader of EOKA.
Monument for Michalis Karaolis, Nicosia
Georgios Grivas
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Georgios Grivas, also known by his nickname Digenis, was a Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X, E
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…EOKA, in Grivas' words, wanted to attract the attention of the world through high-profile operations that would make headlines. EOKA was headed by Georgios Grivas, a Greek Army officer, World War I and World War II veteran. During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, he led a small, anti-communist…
A monument to Georgios Grivas in Paphos