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
Grivas c. 1967
A monument to Georgios Grivas in Paphos
EOKA
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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.
Georgios Grivas
…Greek Cypriot officer of the Hellenic Army and founder and leader of the Greek and Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). He was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Cyprus, then known as the Supreme Military Defence Command…
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