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Eleftherios Venizelos

1864–1936 · 20th century

Eleftherios Venizelos was a Cretan politician who led the campaign for Crete's union with Greece and became Prime Minister of Greece in 1910. He doubled the country's territory in the Balkan Wars. Clashing with King Constantine I over entry into the First World War, he set up a rival government in Thessaloniki in 1916, and led Greece several times until 1933.

Eleftherios Venizelos
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