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Map of Europe in 1973, showing Greece highlighted in green
Capital
Athens
Common languages
Greek
Religion
Greek Orthodoxy
Demonym(s)
Greek, Hellene
Government
Unitary constitutional monarchy under a military dictatorship (1967–1973)
Unitary semi-presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1 June to 25 November 1973) Unitary quasi-parliamentary republic under a military dictatorship (25 November 1973 to 24 July 1974)
Monarch
• King 1967–1973
Constantine II
• Regent 1967–1972 1972–1973
Georgios Zoitakis Georgios Papadopoulos
President
• 1973
Georgios Papadopoulos
• 1973–1974
Phaedon Gizikis
Prime Minister
• 1967
Konstantinos Kollias
• 1967–1973
Georgios Papadopoulos
• 1973
Spyros Markezinis
• 1973–1974
Adamantios Androutsopoulos
Legislature
Hellenic Parliament (nominal, suspended) Rule by decree (actual)
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels[a] was a right-wing military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou's Centre Union was favoured to win.
The dictatorship was characterised by policies such as anti-communism, restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment, torture, and exile of political opponents. It was ruled by Georgios Papadopoulos from 1967 to 1973, but an attempt to renew its support in a 1973 referendum on the monarchy and gradual democratisation was ended by another coup by the hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, who ruled it until it fell on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, leading to the Metapolitefsi ("regime change") (Greek: Μεταπολίτευση) to democracy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic.
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The Greekjunta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels...
The Greekjunta trials (Greek: Οι Δίκες της Χούντας translated as: The Τrials of the Junta) were the trials involving members of the military junta that...
The Metapolitefsi (Greek: Μεταπολίτευση, romanized: Metapolítefsi, IPA: [metapoˈlitefsi], "regime change") was a period in modern Greek history from the...
established by the Constitution of Greece in 1975, but has antecedents in the Second Hellenic Republic of 1924–1935 and the Greekjunta in 1973–1974 which predated...
Chrysopoulos, Philip (21 April 2022). "April 21, 1967: Military Junta Places Greece in Shackles". Greek Reporter. TV documentary "ΤΑ ΔΙΚΑ ΜΑΣ 60's – Μέρος 3ο:...
of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. It began on 14 November 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt, and ended in bloodshed...
new junta strongman. On 20 July 1974, Turkey invaded the island of Cyprus in response to a Greek-backed Cypriot coup, triggering a crisis in Greece that...
The Greek Military Police (Greek: Ελληνική Στρατιωτική Αστυνομία), generally known in Greek by the acronym ESA (Greek: ΕΣΑ), was the military police branch...
This is a list of the heads of state of the modern Greek state, from its establishment during the Greek Revolution to the present day. "First Hellenic Republic"...
mid-1940s. Legalization of the KKE was restored following the fall of the Greekjunta in 1974. The party has returned MPs in all elections since its restoration...
referendum was held in Greece on 29 July 1973. The amendments would confirm the abolition (on 1 June) of the monarchy by the military junta and establish a republic...
from occurring and inaugurating the rule of the Greekjunta dictatorship. "The Rise of the Junta in Greece". www.ahistoryofgreece.com. Retrieved 9 April...
the Greek case report of the commission, Greece left the Council of Europe before the matter could be brought to a vote. After the fall of the junta, Greece...
the Greek case to the European Commission of Human Rights, alleging violations of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) by the Greekjunta, which...
background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greekjunta-sponsored Cypriot coup d'état five days earlier...
by various Greek governments, including the Pangalos and Metaxas regimes, the government during the Greek Civil War, and the Greekjunta. Those targeted...
Ioannidis and as The Invisible Dictator, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the junta that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974....
and Greek leftist sympathisers, in other words internal and external opposition to the junta. The junta always communicated in katharevousa Greek with...
(Greek: Φαίδων Γκιζίκης [ˈfeðon ɟiˈzicis]; 16 June 1917 – 26 July 1999) was a Greek army general who was the last President of Greece under the junta from...
Makarezos (Greek: Νικόλαος Μακαρέζος; 1919 – 3 August 2009) was a Greek Army officer and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974...
The Greek Solution (Greek: Ελληνική Λύση, romanized: Ellinikí Lýsi) a political party in Greece founded by former MP Kyriakos Velopoulos. The party is...
to convince or coerce the Greek generals to send military reinforcements to Cyprus. The subsequent toppling of the Greekjunta led to Sampson's resignation...
Papadopoulos (/ˌpæpəˈdɒpələs/; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος [ʝeˈorʝi.os papaˈðopulos]; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and dictator...
anti-monarchist wing of Greek politics. The monarchy was again abolished in 1973 and replaced by a republic. After the fall of the Greekjunta in July 1974, the...
in modern Greece was carried out using the guillotine (until 1913) or by firing squad. It was last applied in 1972 during the military junta. The death...
Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ΄; born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos [Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος]; 13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Greek Cypriot archbishop...
Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The article reports that throughout the crisis in Italy the Greek consulate sent confidential reports to the junta...
Pattakos (Greek: Στυλιανός Παττακός; 8 November 1912 – 8 October 2016) was a Greek military officer. Pattakos was one of the principals of the Greek military...