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| c. 1935 |
| | | A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition | |
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| 1940 October28 |
| | | Italian troops cross the Albanian border in the hope of a blitzkrieg against Greece | |
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| 1941 |
| | | Greek soprano Maria Callas sings her first Tosca, in the opera house in Athens | |
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| 1941 April 7-28 |
| | | German troops move on from Yugoslavia into Greece, driving a small British force from the mainland across the sea to Crete | |
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| 1941 May |
| | | German forces evict the British from the island of Crete after a week-long battle | |
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| 1942 June 9 |
| | | Hitler orders a massacre at Lidice, a village near Prague, in retaliation for the death of Heydrich | |
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| 1944 |
| | | Churchill extends Harold Macmillan's responsibilities to include developments in Greece and the Balkans | |
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| 1944 October 18 |
| | | Athens is liberated and the Greek government-in-exile returns, with George Papandreou at its head | |
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| 1944 December 3 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Greece between rival groups of partisans resisting demobilization | |
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| 1954 |
| | | George Grivas leads a guerrilla movement, EOKA, fighting for Cyprus's independence from Britain and union with Greece | |
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