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Battle of Konitsa
DateDecember 24, 1947 – January 15, 1948
Location
Konitsa, Epirus, northwestern Greece
Result Hellenic Army victory
Belligerents

Provisional Democratic Government

  • Democratic Army of Greece

Kingdom of Greece

  • Hellenic Army
Commanders and leaders
Markos Vafiadis
Georgios Sofianos
Colonel Konstantinos Dovas (WIA)
Major Georgios Peridis

The Battle of Konitsa was a conflict of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949); between the Communist led Democratic Army of Greece and the Greek Army of the Kingdom of Greece. It was a failed initiative to capture the northwestern Greek town of Konitsa, in order to establish a capital for the Provisional Democratic Government; a rival authority to the recognized government in Athens. This was part of the communist "Operation Limnes" (Lakes) which aimed the capture of a major Greek town.

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