Nikolaos Triantafyllakos ( el, Νικόλαος Τριανταφυλλάκος) (8 November 1855,

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- 16 September 1939) was a

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during a tumultuous time in

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history in August/September 1922. He represented the prefecture of

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in the

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. As the Greek army was losing battles and ceding territory to the

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in 1922 in the

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, the political situation in Athens began to deteriorate. The cabinet of

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resigned on 28 August,

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was entrusted by King Constantine with the formation of a new ministry. After two days spent in negotiations he failed in his task, and Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, the ex-high commissioner of Greece at

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, was summoned, and succeeded with difficulty in forming a makeshift government. In the meantime, excitement and dissatisfaction were steadily growing among the population, and strict measures were necessary for the maintenance of order. On 11 September, martial law was proclaimed, following the revolt of 8,000 troops and their officers in

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, who sent word to Athens demanding the abdication of King Constantine and the imprisonment of the former prime ministers,

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and

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. This revolt was followed by a widespread rebellion of troops evacuated from Asia Minor to the islands of

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, and

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. The army contingents in Mytilene formed a Revolutionary Committee headed by Colonel

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, which despatched by aeroplane the following demands to Athens: the dismissal of the government, the dissolution of the parliament, the holding of new elections, and the abdication of King Constantine in favour of the Crown Prince, Crown Prince George. The revolutionary movement swiftly spread to other centres of Greece and to the Greek gunboats stationed at Mytilene and in and about the port of

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. The Cabinet and Prime Minister Triantafyllakos immediately resigned on 16 September, and that day King Constantine abdicated for the second time in the course of his career, and the king's eldest son succeeded to the throne of Greece as King George II. Triantafyllakos died in 1939.

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