* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

In 1974, following a coup sponsored by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and executed by the Cypriot National Guard the invasion of troops from Turkey ( citing its authority as one of the three guarantor powers established by the Constitution ), the Turkish Cypriots formally set up their own institutions with a popularly-elected separatist president and a Prime Minister, responsible to the National Assembly, exercising joint executive powers.

Among the many petty local republics that were formed during the first year of the Greek Revolution, prior to the creation of a unified Provisional Government at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus, were:

The Republic of Cyprus is receiving strong support from Greece in international forums with the latter maintaining a military contingent on the island, and Greek officers filling key positions in the Cypriot National Guard.

Clay grenades that were filled with Greek fire, 10th – 12th century, National Historical Museum ( Greece ) | National Historical Museum, Athens, Greece

Venizelos now led a superficially united Greece into the war on the Allied side, but underneath the surface, the division of Greek society into Venizelists and anti-Venizelists, the so-called National Schism, became more entrenched.

The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.

Continuing Polgár's return to competitive chess, in July 2011 she participated in the 39th Greek Team National Championship scoring 3½ out of 4 games.

* 1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

* 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

* Larissa The Official website of the Greek National Tourism Organisation

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

* Greek National Socialist Party

* " The Greek National Anthem "

** General Grivas and his 10, 000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros ; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens.

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

File: NAMA Mycènes bouclier 1. jpg | Wall painting depicting a Mycenaean Greek " figure eight " shield with a suspension strap at the middle, 15th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens-The faces of figure eight shields were quite convex.

The Porta Rosa is a Greece | Greek street dating from the 3rd to 4th century BC in Velia, Italy with a Road surface | paved surface and Street gutter | gutter s.

The superhighways Greek National Road 1 in Greece and M1 and E75 run within the valley along the river's entire length to near Skopje.

The western end of Greek National Road 82 begins in downtown Pylos.

The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek ( ακμή ; English transliteration: acmē ) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, and products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both generic and failure-prone.

* Greek National Road 44, Cen., S, SE

* Greek National Road 77 NW, N, W, Cen.

* Greek National Road 3, NE

* Greek National Road 27, Cen., N

* Greek National Road 48, SW, Cen., SE

In addition to the native English, there is a significant Arab population towards Edgware Road, a large Greek community attracted by London's Greek Orthodox Cathedral, many Americans and London's main Brazilian community.

Local businesses include a number of furniture shops including Chaplins, which holds the largest selection of contemporary designer furniture in Europe, plus numerous restaurants including Italian ( for example, there is a branch of ASK on the Uxbridge Road ), Greek, Chinese, American and Indian.

A road connects Vari with Koropi and Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, and Greek National Road 91 connects it with Athens and Sounio.

* Esperanza — 511 Town Hill Road — A country estate, first built in a Greek Revival style in 1835, then expanded in a Colonial revival style between 1874 and 1893

Commerce and practicality led to the development of the current Town Center, as seen today, in a group of Colonial and Greek Revival buildings, including the landmark Congregational Church and Town Square ( at the intersection of Granville Road, Depot Street, and College Highway ).

Other churches include St. George Greek Orthodox, Bloomfield Hills Baptist, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church ( ELCA ) on Adamds Road ( Bloomfield Township ), Detroit Michigan Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Birmingham Unitarian Church on Woodward Avenue.

Image: Lodi_Township_Saint_Nicholas_Greek_Orthodox_Church. JPG | Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Scio Church Road

The Greek National Road 36 connects Mytilene with Kalloni.

St. John the Baptist Greek Cemetery, later renamed to St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery is located on the south side of Salisbury Road in the town of Geddes directly across the street from the Sacred Heart Cemetery and is situated half a block to the west of South Avery Avenue.

Carlton Road Complex includes three sophomore-only dormitories and several Greek life houses.

* Greek National Road 42

* St. Nicholas ' Greek Orthodox Church, 200 Great East Neck Road ( West Babylon )

There are two other cathedrals in Southwark — the Roman Catholic St George's Cathedral Southwark and the Greek Orthodox St Mary's at Camberwell New Road.

Another Buddhist deity, named Shukongoshin, one of the wrath-filled protector deities of Buddhist temples in Japan, is also an interesting case of transmission of the image of the famous Greek god Herakles to the Far East along the Silk Road.

The Greek National Road 9 Patras-Pylos runs through Lechaina.