| LC control no. | sh2015000776 |
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| Topical heading | Athens, Battle of, Athens, Greece, 1944-1945 |
| Variant(s) | December Events, Greece, 1944-1945 Dekemvriana, Athens, Greece, 1944-1945 Greece--History--December Events, 1944-1945 |
| See also | Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Campaigns |
| Found in | Work cat: 2014508282: CharalampideĢs, M. Dekemvriana 1944, 2014: p. 13 (Dekemvriana [literally, December Events]; armed clashes in Athens from Dec. 4, 1944 to Jan. 11, 1945 in which leftist forces of ELAS battled British troops and Greek government forces; formally ended on Feb. 12, 1945) Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Academic Edition), Mar. 25, 2015: Greek Civil War ("A bitter civil war broke out in Athens on December 3, which the British military forces managed to suppress with great difficulty,... The communists [of EAM-ELAS] accepted defeat and the disbandment of their forces at a conference in February 1945,...") Greece : a country study, 1996: p. 61 ("When [in Dec. 1944] police forces opened fire on demonstrators in Athens, a thirty-three-day street battle erupted bewteen police and British troops on one side and ELAS fighters on the other. ... The Battle of Athens ruined some parts of the city and left as many as 11,000 dead." Enkyklopaideia Papyros, Larous, Britannika, 1981: Dekemvriana (name by which a battle in Athens is known; fought between EAM-ELAS on one side and British troops and Greek government forces on the other; began on Dec. 3, 1944) sansimera.gr WWW site, Mar. 25, 2015: (Dekemvriana; designation for battle in Athens in which ELAS fought British troops and Greek government forces; began on Dec. 3, 1944; formally ended with Varkiza Agreement of Feb. 12, 1945) Dictionary of battles and sieges, 2007: (Athens, Greece; Greek Civil War; 5 December 1944-15 January 1945 [no entry under December Events or Dekemvriana]) The Guardian online, article: Athens 1944: Britain's dirty secret, dated Sunday 30 November 2014 (Battle of Athens; known in Greece as the Dekemvriana) |
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