Eleftherios Venizelos
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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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(28-9-28), M. Venizelos - btv1b532048111_Mr_Streit%2C_Mr_Pachitch%2C_Mr_Venizelos%2C_Mr_Andr%C3%A9_Nicolitch%2C_Mr_Novakovitch_-_btv1b69239117.jpg?width=1200)
(Réunion de diplomates serbes et grecs) Mr Streit, Mr Pachitch, Mr Venizelos, Mr André Nicolitch, Mr Novakovitch - btv1b69239117_Mr_Streit%2C_Mr_Pachitch%2C_Mr_Venizelos%2C_Mr_Andr%C3%A9_Nicolitch%2C_Mr_Novakovitch%2C_Mr_Goranomitch_-_btv1b6923910t.jpg?width=1200)
(Réunion de diplomates serbes et grecs) Mr Streit, Mr Pachitch, Mr Venizelos, Mr André Nicolitch, Mr Novakovitch, Mr Goranomitch - btv1b6923910t
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2-10-25, obsèques de Bourgeois (M.) de Venizélos - btv1b531547951_Marinkovitch%2C_Venizelos%2C_Spalaikovitch_-_btv1b53204855g.jpg?width=1200)
28-9-28 (de g. à d.) Marinkovitch, Venizelos, Spalaikovitch - btv1b53204855g
Arrivée de Vénizélos à SaloniqueIn their own words 10
A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.
Neutrality is not politics.
Venizelos about the decision of Constantine I to keep Greece neutral during WWI.
Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer.
Venizelos speaking to Greek sailors at the beginning of the First Balkan War.
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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
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