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Events

  • 1823: Georgios Karaiskakis defeats the Turks at the Battle of Agios Vlassis.
  • 1922: France supplies the Kemalist army with weapons and ammunition in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).
  • 1939: A committee is established to organise the transfer of the remains of Andreas Kalvos from England to Greece
  • 1950: The Church of Cyprus organises a referendum as to the future status of the island colony. 97% of all participants vote for Enosis with Greece.
  • 2006: A new political party, ASPIDA, was officially formed in Greece with the sole purpose of representing the Roma or Gypsy community, claiming that it could garner more support than the Communist Party, which holds 12 seats in Parliament.

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