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Greek nationalism, otherwise referred to as Hellenic nationalism, refers to the nationalism of Greeks and Greek culture. As an ideology, Greek nationalism originated and evolved in classical Greece. I
Greek hoplite (right) and Persian warrior (left) depicted fighting, on an ancient kylix (5th century BCE)
St. John III Doukas Vatatzes the Merciful King, Emperor of the Romans and "Father of the Greeks".
Grateful Hellas, painting by Theodoros Vryzakis (1858), National Historical Museum, Athens. Greece personified as a woman, depicted with revolutionaries who participated in the Greek War of Independence.
Louis Dupré's depiction of Nikolakis Mitropoulos raising his flag at Salona; a scene from the early stages of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.
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.
George Grivas
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