Eleftherios Venizelos
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Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Venizelos served as prime minister of Gr
Venizelos in 1919
Portrait of Kyriakos Venizelos, father of Eleftherios
Venizelos father's shop in Chania
The house of Venizelos in Mournies
National Schism
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The National Schism, also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over Greece's foreign policy from 1915
Eleftherios Venizelos (left) and King Constantine I (right) prior to the National Schism c. 1913
King Constantine I judged that Greece's interests were best served by remaining neutral in the First World War.
Demonstration in Athens in favour of Constantine, summer 1915
Eleftherios Venizelos, the Greek Prime Minister, believed that Greece's interests were best served by entering the war on the side of the Allies.