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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.
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1916 and Greek
In August 1916, after several incidents where both combatants encroached upon the still theoretically neutral Greek territory, Venizelist officers rose up in Allied-controlled Thessaloniki, and Venizelos established a separate government there.
In November 1916 the French occupied Piraeus, bombarded Athens and forced the Greek fleet to surrender.
Neon ( Greek ( neon ) meaning " new one ") was discovered in 1898 by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay ( 1852 – 1916 ) and Morris W. Travers ( 1872 – 1961 ) in London.
In alliance with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, Bulgaria won military victories against Serbia and Romania, occupying much of Macedonia ( taking Skopje in October ), advancing into Greek Macedonia, and taking Dobruja from Romania in September 1916.
In 1916, she published a catalog of Greek manuscripts in the Royal Library, Copenhagen.
* The Greek Anthology, books 1-6, translated by W. R. Paton, with facing Greek text ( Loeb Classical Library, 1916 )
Stanisław Leśniewski coined " mereology " in 1927, from the Greek word μέρος ( méros, " part "), to refer to a formal theory of part-whole he devised in a series of highly technical papers published between 1916 and 1931, and translated in Leśniewski ( 1992 ).
In December 1916, French warships arrived off Greece, bombarding Athens and landing sailors, forcing the pro-German Greek government to change its policies.
In November 1916, in order to apply pressure on the royal government in Athens, the French confiscated the Greek ships.
The mansion at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Druid Hills, built 1916 eventually became St. John Chrysostom Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
The Greek occupying authorities issued three sets of stamps for use in the region: stamps from the " Engraved ", " Lithographic " and 1916 " ET " issues overprinted with Διοίκησις Δυτικής Θράκης ( Administration of Western Thrace ), released in May 1920 ; Turkish stamps overprinted with Υπάτη Αρμοστεία Θράκης ( High Commission of Thrace ) and new values, released in July 1920 ; and Greek stamps from the three sets listed above, overprinted with Διοίκησις Θράκης and released the same year.
Piraeus Bank Group is a Greek bank founded in 1916 that went through a period of state ownership and management ( 1975 – 1991 ) before it was privatised in December 1991.
Alfred Güterbock ( d. 1916 ) first deposited and then bequeathed a small but very fine collection of Greek gold, silver and copper coins, 380 in all, together with some Roman coins.
The demands of modern warfare as well as financial economy soon saw these survivals vanish and by 1916 all involved armies were in either khaki ( Russia, Turkish, Serbia, Montenegro, Japan, Greek, French colonial and Britain ), various shades of grey ( German, Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Austro-Hungarian ) or sky blue ( French and Romanian ).
It later played a major role in the coup that toppled the government of King Constantine in 1916, and also in the World War II Battle of Crete and the Greek Resistance which followed.
In March 1916 the German and Bulgarian forces started occupying Greek territories in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
Mykines ( Greek: Μυκήνες, before 1916: Χαρβάτι-Charvati ) is a village and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece.
The first reliable grammar of Cappadocian is Modern Greek in Asia Minor: A study of dialect of Silly, Cappadocia and Pharasa ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916 ), by Richard MacGillivray Dawkins ( 1871 – 1955 ), the first Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, based on fieldwork conducted by the author in Cappadocia in 1909-1911.
Greek armies returned to occupy Epirus in November 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, but were driven out by Italian forces in 1916.
Greek forces were driven out of Epirus by Italy in 1916 ; at the same time, Koritsa came under French occupation.
1916 and army
* 1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani – Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
Starving and displaced, many Kazakhs joined in the general Central Asian Revolt against conscription into the Russian imperial army, which the tsar ordered in July 1916 as part of the effort against Germany in World War I.
The beginnings of the modern army arose during 1916, when the French government established the " Legion of the Orient ", which included Lebanese soldiers.
In 1916 violent opposition broke out in Uzbekistan and elsewhere, in response to the conscription of Central Asians into the Russian army fighting World War I.
As early as 1916, Julian Huxley wrote a two part article in the Auk, noting the tensions between amateurs and professionals and suggesting the possibility that the " vast army of bird-lovers and bird-watchers could begin providing the data scientists needed to address the fundamental problems of biology.
In early 1916 the importance of the capture of the Gheluvelt plateau for an advance further north was emphasised by Haig and the army commanders.
The Russian army launched the Kerensky Offensive in an attempt to honour the agreement struck with its allies at the Chantilly meeting of 15 – 16 November 1916.
He joined the army in 1916, was commissioned in the Royal Sussexs in 1917 and was wounded on the Western Front.
Part of the Bulgarian army was involved in the conquest of Romania in 1916.
In 1916, he volunteered to join the army and fought on the Western Front until he was captured by the British in 1918.
The naval 3-inch was also adopted by the army, the QF 3 inch 20 cwt ( 76 mm ), a new field mounting was introduced in 1916.
It was only an honorary rank since in 1916 – 1917 General Petar Bojović held the position of Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command ( the highest military position in the Serbian Army ) and was a superior to two army commanders who were vojvodas ( Stepa Stepanović and Živojin Mišić ).
In early 1916 Pancho Villa a Mexican general ordered 500 soldiers on a murderous raid on the American city of Columbus New Mexico, with the goal of robbing banks to fund his army.
Liepāja was occupied by the German army on 7 May 1915 ; in memory of this event, a monument was constructed on Kūrmājas prospect in 1916 ( destroyed in 1919 ).
In 1916, in a model combined Army-Navy assault, the Russian Black Sea fleet helped the Russian army to take the Ottoman city of Trebizond ( modern Trabzon ).
Following the catastrophic defeats of France's ally Romania at the hands of Central Powers in late 1916, that forced the capital Bucharest to be evacuated, Joffre was appointed as head of the French Military Mission aimed at reforming the Romanian army.
The Serbian army retreated across the Albanian mountain ranges to the Adriatic Sea by January 1916.
With a heavy military influence in the University, many students left college to join the army during World War I, and the local ROTC was organized in 1916.
In November 1916 he obtained a three month disability leave from the army and returned to Jerusalem.
However, in April 1916 when Nathan showed him a letter from the army commander in the south of Ireland telling of an expected landing of arms on the southwest coast and a rising planned for Easter, they were both ' doubtful whether there was any foundation for the rumour '.
Born in the town of Mosul, Midfai served in the Ottoman army during World War I, but deserted in 1916 to take part in the nationalist Arab Revolt.
Yuan kept a tight grip on the command of the army after its establishment by installing officials only loyal to him ; however, after his death in 1916, the army groups were quickly fragmented into four major forces of combative warlords, according to the locations of garrisons.
When the dam was completed, in 1916, Peng assumed that he was no longer in danger of being arrested and returned home, joining the army of a local Kuomintang-aligned warlord, Tang Xiangming.
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