Constantine Kollias ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Κόλλιας) (1901 – 13 July 1998) was a

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of the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court who was proclaimed

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by the far right-wing

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, which ruled the country from 1967 until 1974.

Biography

Kollias was born in 1901 in the village of Stylia,

Xylokastro-Evrostina Xylokastro–Evrostina ( el, Ξυλόκαστρο-Ευρωστίνα) is a municipality in the Corinthia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Xylokastro. The municipality has an area of 411.667 km2. Munici ...

, in the province of Korinthia,

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. He died in

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on 13 July 1998. Kollias was

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during the period 1941-1944 when Greece was occupied by three Axis forces (Germany, Italy and Bulgaria). He was responsible for persecuting resistance members during the occupation, and was indicted after liberation for his actions. According to a published study by Dimitris Kousouris (2014: p.155) Kousouris, D. (2014). From revolution to restoration. Transnational implications of the Greek purge of wartime collaborators. In Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships (pp. 145–161). TMC Asser Press, The Hague.

Kollias was proclaimed Prime Minister by the far-right

on 21 April 1967, the very day of the coup d'état that overthrew

Panagiotis Kanellopoulos Panagiotis Kanellopoulos or Panayotis Kanellopoulos ( el, Παναγιώτης Κανελλόπουλος; 13 December 1902, in Patras, Achaea – 11 September 1986, in Athens) was a Greek writer, politician and Prime Minister of Greece. He w ...

' legitimate government. However, nearly eight months later, he was replaced by the head of the military coup d'état

Georgios Papadopoulos Geórgios Papadopoulos (; el, Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος ; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greeks, Greek military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973. He joined the Hellenic ...

after the unsuccessful counter-coup of

King Constantine II Constantine II ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, ''Konstantínos II''; 2 June 1940) reigned as the last King of Greece, from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973. Constantine is the only son of King Paul an ...

on 13 December 1967.

Kollias died on 13 July 1998, at the age of 96.

References

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