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Komninos Piromaglou
Diomidis Komninos ( el, Διομήδης Κομνηνός; 1956–1973), a Cypriot Greek high school student, was the first casualty of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. He was shot opposite the main gate of the Polytechnic. The events On the night of Friday, November 16, 1973, police forces started confronting the thousands of protesters gathered inside and outside the Polytechnic campus, located on Patission Street, one of the busiest in Athens. Komnenos was one of the many high school students barricaded inside the Polytechnic. At about 10:00 pm, the police used guns and smoke-bombs to evacuate the streets from the protesters. At the time, Komninos had joined other students on the corner of Tritis Septemvriou Street and Averof St.,Intersection coordinates: () exactly across from the Polytechnic. It is reported that Komninos went from the student side to the middle of the street toward the police lines and raising his hands he told them from a distance of about forty metres: "If ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diomedes Komnenos
Diomidis Komninos ( el, Διομήδης Κομνηνός; 1956–1973), a Cypriot Greek high school student, was the first casualty of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. He was shot opposite the main gate of the Polytechnic. The events On the night of Friday, November 16, 1973, police forces started confronting the thousands of protesters gathered inside and outside the Polytechnic campus, located on Patission Street, one of the busiest in Athens. Komnenos was one of the many high school students barricaded inside the Polytechnic. At about 10:00 pm, the police used guns and smoke-bombs to evacuate the streets from the protesters. At the time, Komninos had joined other students on the corner of Tritis Septemvriou Street and Averof St.,Intersection coordinates: () exactly across from the Polytechnic. It is reported that Komninos went from the student side to the middle of the street toward the police lines and raising his hands he told them from a distance of about forty metres: "If ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metapolitefsi
The Metapolitefsi ( el, Μεταπολίτευση, , " regime change") was a period in modern Greek history from the fall of the Ioaniddes military junta of 1973–74 to the transition period shortly after the 1974 legislative elections. The metapolitefsi was ignited by the liberalisation plan of military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos, which was opposed by prominent politicians such as Panagiotis Kanellopoulos and Stephanos Stephanopoulos, and halted by the massive Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military junta. The counter coup of Dimitrios Ioannides, and his coup d'etat against President of Cyprus Makarios III, which led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, brought the dictatorship down. The appointment of the interim "national unity government", led by former prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, saw Karamanlis legalise the Communist Party (KKE) and found the center-right but still parliamentary (non-military) New Democracy party, which won the elections of 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |