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    The Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters') was...
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  • EOKA-B or Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B (EOKA B /eɪˈoʊkə/; Greek: Εθνική Οργάνωσις Κυπρίων Αγωνιστών, lit. 'National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters')...
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    Cyprus Emergency (category EOKA)
    April 1955 and March 1959. The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an...
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    junta in Greece and staged by the Cypriot National Guard in conjunction with EOKA B. It deposed the Cypriot president Archbishop Makarios III and installed...
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    Georgios Grivas (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
    Cypriot paramilitary organisations Organization X (1942–1949), EOKA (1955–1959) and EOKA B (1971–1974). A specialist of guerilla and asymmetric warfare...
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    engagement during the Cyprus Emergency. The EOKA planned a raid to rescue Polykarpos Giorkatzis, an EOKA prisoner who had been transferred to hospital...
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  • Cyprus by Bus. Retrieved 20 March 2013. Central Bank Of Cyprus - Working Hours & Bank Holidays Nicos Anastasiades pay tribute to EOKA liberation struggle...
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  • organisation to counter the Greek Cypriot Fighter's Organization EOKA (later "EOKA-B"). The name of the organization was changed twice. In 1967 to "Mücahit"...
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  • Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA) which led to the start of the Cyprus Emergency. Multiple British locations were attacked after midnight by EOKA members. This attack...
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    Makarios III (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
    Fighters), or EOKA. This was a typical independence movement of the period. Makarios undoubtedly had common political ground with EOKA and was acquainted...
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    Cyprus. The Liberty Monument was erected in 1973 to honor the anti-British EOKA fighters of the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–1959. It is located at the Podocattaro...
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  • Nikos Sampson (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
    acting President of Cyprus during the 1974 coup. A former journalist and EOKA militant pardoned under the London and Zürich Agreements, Sampson was first...
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  • Evagoras Pallikarides (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
    March 1957) was a Greek-Cypriot poet and revolutionary who was a member of EOKA during the 1955–1959 campaign against British rule in Cyprus. He was arrested...
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  • or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign...
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    still pursued the Megali Idea, would later found the guerrilla organisation EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston or National Organisation of Cypriot...
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  • the violent tactics followed by the anti-British resistance movement of EOKA. EOKA accused AKEL of being collaborators with the British, even though AKEL...
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  • as an organisation to counter the Greek Cypriot Fighter's Organization (EOKA). The organisation was originally formed by a couple of youngsters to patrol...
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    violence escalated with a campaign against the colonial power organised by EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston). Its leader, Colonel George Grivas...
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    an independent state. Before entering the political stage he fought for EOKA. His political career evolved from a staunch supporter of Makarios to becoming...
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    Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston – EOKA). On 1 April 1955, EOKA opened an armed campaign against British rule in a coordinated...
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    Μάρκος Δράκος) was a Greek Cypriot guerrilla fighter who was killed in the EOKA struggle (1955–1959) against the British. His nom de guerre was Lykourgos...
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    Glafcos Clerides (category Cypriot people of the EOKA)
    independence, first as a member of the anti-colonial guerilla organization EOKA and later in the drafting of the country's constitution. He then served as...
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  • police officers, as the rival organization of the paramilitary organization, EOKA B, to fight and if possible, destroy it and to protect the then President...
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    anti-terrorist operations against the EOKA guerrillas during the independence war against the British. The EOKA were a small, but powerful organisation...
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    Africa. In Cyprus, a guerrilla war waged by the Greek Cypriot organisation EOKA against British rule, was ended in 1959 by the London and Zürich Agreements...
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    from the original on 13 May 2019. The EOKA rebelled against the British colonial government on April 1, 1955. EOKA insurgents attacked police stations in...
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  • Emergency. British soldiers in the village of Liopetri were attacked by an EOKA team of four who were subsequently killed in the ensuing fire fight. The...
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    insurgency against British rule, led by the Greek nationalist organisation EOKA. EOKA was considered a terrorist organisation by the British authorities in...
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  • their proper names after the struggle. George Grivas, the Greek-Cypriot EOKA militant, adopted the nom de guerre Digenis (Διγενής). In the French Foreign...
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    League National Youth Organisation EDES Northern Epirus Liberation Front EOKA EOKA B Political parties Napist Party Nationalist Party New Party (1873) New...
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