adartissa
female Resistance fighter
adartis
male Resistance fighter
Dekemvriana
December events of 1944
deltio
bulletin
dini
tempest
ethnikofrosini
national-mindedness
geniko archigeio
general headquarters
kapetanios
captain
katharevousa
an obsolete form of 'purified Greek' drawing on both ancient and modern linguistic elements; replaced by 'demotiki' (vernacular) in 1981
kommouno-simmorites
communist gangsters
laiki aftodioikisi
people's self-government
laiki dimokratia/laokratia
people's democracy
mahitria
woman fighter
metapolitefsi
change/transformation of regime
miliciana
female fighter of the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War
monarchofasistes
monarcho-fascists 
paidomazoma
evacuation of children
politikos epitropos
political commissar
skoupa
broom
tagmata asfaleias
security battalions
(X)-tes
anti-communist terrorist group organised by Giorgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general of the Greek Army
ypefthini
(female) partisan in charge; leader
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