) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

* 1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

On 16 June 1913, just a few months after the end of the first war, the Bulgarian government ordered an attack on Serbian and Greek positions in Macedonia, without declaring war.

Gaebelein states that " it is inconceivable that Greek terms for government and administration would not have been adopted into Aramaic by the second century BC.

On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.

These Greek city-states reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic government.

After the 1974 invasion following a Greek junta-based coup attempt, Makarios secured international recognition of his Greek Cypriot government as the sole legal authority on Cyprus, which has proved to be a very significant strategic advantage for the Greek Cypriots in the decades since.

Both sides publicly call for the resolution of intercommunal differences and creation of a new federal system ( Greek Cypriot position ) or confederate system ( Turkish Cypriot position ) of government.

* favoured a weak central government presiding over two sovereign states in voluntary association, a legacy of earlier fears of domination by the majority Greek Cypriots ; and

Guns are subject to strict regulation from the Greek government, yet the authorities turn a blind eye, accepting gun possession as their tradition.

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.

Rome carried forth Greek ideas of citizenship such as the principles of equality under the law, civic participation in government, and notions that " no one citizen should have too much power for too long ",.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

The Greek government opposes the use of the name without any qualification such as ' Republic of Northern Macedonia ' to the post-1991 constitutional name of its northern neighbour, citing historical and territorial concerns resulting from the ambiguity between the terms Republic of Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia and the ancient kingdom of Macedon, which falls within Greek Macedonia.

Even before Christianisation, the Imperial Roman government had suppressed many pagan, Christian, philosophical and divinatory texts that it viewed as threats to Roman authority, including those of the Greek mystic and mathematician Pythagoras.

George Finlay's 1861 History of Greek Revolution records that by 1831 Kapodistrias's government had become hated, chiefly by the independent Maniates, but also by the Roumeliotes and the rich and influential merchant families of Hydra, Spetses and Psara.

A new generation of Greek politicians was growing increasingly intolerant of King Otto's continuing interference in government.

Greeks in Crete continued to stage regular revolts, and in 1897, the Greek government under Theodoros Deligiannis, bowing to popular pressure, declared war on the Ottomans.

The study also concluded that “ Estimates of colonial Greek vs. indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10 % Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population .” This evidence supports the persistence of the gene pool of the Ancient Greeks among the modern southern French.

The Egyptologist J. Gwyn Griffiths concluded that several elements of this account were taken from Greek mythology, and that the work as a whole was not based directly on Egyptian sources.

Former American Bible Society board member Dr. Bruce M. Metzger concluded that " on the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators ," but identified instances where the translation has been written to support doctrine, with " several quite erroneous renderings of the Greek.

The first mention of lymphatic vessels was in 3rd century BC by Herophilos, a Greek anatomist living in Alexandria, who incorrectly concluded that the " absorptive veins of the lymphatics ", by which he meant the lacteals ( lymph vessels of the intestines ), drained into the hepatic portal veins, and thus into the liver.

He twice besieged Constantinople, in 941 and 944, and in spite of part of his fleet being destroyed by Greek fire, concluded with the Emperor a favourable treaty whose text is preserved in the chronicle.

It might be concluded, therefore, that the bouzouki has been named after the jargon of the Greek tamboura named saz, by the Greeks living in Turkey.

Several commentators have noted that Jesus describes the transfiguration using the Greek word orama (), according to Thayer more often used for a supernatural " vision " than for real physical events, and concluded that Moses and Elijah were not truly there.

Later some Jewish thinkers, adopting ideas from Greek philosophy, concluded that God's Wisdom, Word and Spirit had shared in the creative act.

Eurostat concluded in 2006 that the public deficit of the Greek economy amounted to 6, 1 % in 2003, more than double the percentage presented by Simitis ' government.

Ismail Enver has been accused of war crimes and mass murder for his role in the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide and Assyrian Genocide along with the Ottoman Caliph Mehmed V. After thorough periods of studying and analyzing documents, documentation of eyewitnesses, photographs, and video evidence, it is now concluded by the majority of historians that the Young Turks, including Ismail ( Enver ) Pasha was the mastermind of such genocides.

Helmut Merkel ( 1974 ) also concluded that Secret Mark is dependent on the four Canonical Gospels after analyzing the key Greek phrases.

The first, Venetia Anastasopoulou, a forensic handwriting expert witness with experience in many Greek court cases, compared the Mar Saba photos with known samples of Morton Smith's Greek handwriting, and concluded that it was most probably not written by Morton Smith.

After the Parade of Nations had concluded and the athletes were gathered in the center of the stadium, two short speeches were delivered in front of a model of an olive tree, a traditional Greek and Olympic symbol.

In 1814 the young Dane Rasmus Christian Rask submitted an entry to an essay contest on Icelandic history, in which he concluded that the Germanic languages were ( as we would put it ) in the same language family as Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Lithuanian.

Klijn concluded that the Gospel harmony composed in Greek appears to be a distinctive text known only to Epiphanius.

* From the fact that logos is Greek for " word ", Stuart Chase concluded in his book The Tyranny of Words that logic was mere manipulation of words.

They concluded, " Thus in nearly two-thirds of the New Testament text, the seven editions of the Greek New Testament which we have reviewed are in complete accord, with no differences other than in orthographical details ( e. g., the spelling of names, etc .).

An independent judicial inquiry held under public prosecutor Christos Sartzetakis concluded that responsible for the assassination were far-right extremists who linked with rogue elements in the Greek security forces.

By contrast, many recent studies of the Greek word pistis have concluded that its primary and most common meaning was faithfulness, meaning firm commitment in an interpersonal relationship.

Comparing Greek place names with their foreign counterparts in ancient Anatolia, he concluded that a non-Greek, Mediterranean culture had preceded the Greeks there, leaving extensive linguistic traces.

Kellis ( also known as Killis ), a former OSS officer with knowledge of Greek political circles and power brokers, concluded that Greek communist circles lacked the power and influence to commit the murder and cover it up.