Greek People's Liberation Army
Also known as ELAS, EAM-ELAS
The '''Greek People's Liberation Army' (, Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós; ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek resistance until February 1945, when, following the Dekemvriana'' clashes and the Varkiza Agreement, it was disarmed and disbanded. ELAS was the largest and most significant of the military organizations of the Greek resistance.
Key facts
- War Faction.name
- Greek People's Liberation Army
- War Faction.war
- the Greek Resistance and the Dekemvriana
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- File:Αντάρτες του ΕΑΜ-ΕΛΑΣ (restored).jpg
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- ELAS partisans on Mount Parnitha
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- 250
- War Faction.active
- 1942–1945
- War Faction.leaders
- Aris Velouchiotis (Chief Captain)Major General Stefanos Sarafis (Chief military officer)Political commissar Andreas Tzimas (Chief political supervisor)
- War Faction.allegiance
- EAM Mountain Government (1944)
- War Faction.ideology
- Communism Greek nationalism
- War Faction.size
- 50,000 (1944)
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- National Liberation Front
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Birth of ELAS
- Consolidation of strength
- Gorgopotamos
- Expansion of ELAS
- The "Mountain Government"
- 1943: First Civil War
- Αftermath
- Hymn
- List of important battles
- List of important ELAS members
- See also
- References
- Sources
The '''Greek People's Liberation Army' (, Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós; ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek resistance until February 1945, when, following the Dekemvriana'' clashes and the Varkiza Agreement, it was disarmed and disbanded. ELAS was the largest and most significant of the military organizations of the Greek resistance.
==Birth of ELAS==