Kingdom of Greece
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The Kingdom of Greece was the Greek state established in 1832 by the Treaty of Constantinople, which formally recognised Greece as an independent state and established it as a monarchy, following the
Otto, the first king of modern Greece
King George I of the Hellenes
The Hellenic Parliament in the 1880s, with PM Charilaos Trikoupis standing at the podium
Fencing before King George, during the 1896 Summer Olympics
Greek junta
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The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew a caretaker government a month before sch
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…April 1967. On 21 April 1967 however, a group of right-wing colonels led by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos seized power in a coup d'état establishing the Regime of the Colonels. Civil liberties were suppressed, special military courts were established, and political parties were dissolved. Several thousand suspected communists…
Gyaros, a prison island for dissidents
The cell of officer Spyros Moustaklis in EAT-ESA building. During a torture session, he suffered brain trauma and was left paralyzed.
Later President of Greece, Magistrate Christos Sartzetakis was discharged and imprisoned by the junta due to his investigation on Lambrakis' murder.
Protest against the junta by Greek political exiles in Germany, 1967