# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eleftherios-venizelos
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:57:11.581Z

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name: "Eleftherios Venizelos"
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description: "He doubled Greece's size through two Balkan wars, split the country down the middle in a decade-long political schism with the king, then died sentenced to death in Paris after a coup attempt to keep him in power."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  A leader of the 1897 Cretan Revolt, Venizelos secured his island's autonomy and later its union with Greece, leading the Theriso revolt in 1905. Invited to Athens in 1909 to break a political deadlock, he became prime minister and overhauled the constitution, the economy, and the military. His diplomacy won Greece entry to the Balkan League; the wars of 1912–1913 liberated Macedonia, Epirus, and most of the Aegean, doubling the nation's territory and population. In World War I he brought Greece in with the Allies, but his foreign policy collided with the nonaligned King Constantine I, fracturing the country into an unofficial civil war between a northern provisional government and the royal seat in Athens — a schism that polarized Greeks for decades. After the Allied victory he gained concessions in Anatolia and Thrace, but lost the 1920 election; Greece's defeat in the Greco-Turkish War followed, and Venizelos negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne from exile. He returned in 1928 with a landslide, mending relations with Turkey and resettling refugees, but after losses in 1932 and 1933 a failed coup tried to hold him in office. A second attempt in March 1935 earned h