Venizelos in a sentence

Passengers wait in a queue, to enter a flight to Israel, at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023.

Venizelos, wearing his typical side cap, sitting at his desk (1930).

On August 22, 1920, and after a dispute between Venizelos and Paraskevopoulos, due to the occupation of Bursa, the latter resigned.

In 1910, Eleftherios Venizelos became Greece’s prime minister and an air of change spread across the land.

Venizelos has been a part of several governments and played an instrumental role in the country’s political evolution.

Alongside domestic reforms, Venizelos restored Greece's frayed international relations, even initiating a Greco-Turkish reconciliation with a visit to Ankara and the signing of a Friendship Agreement in 1930.

At the same time, a series of deaths left the Greek political scene in disarray: Kondylis died in February, Venizelos in March, Demertzis in April and Tsaldaris in May.

Facing the danger of encirclement, Constantine realized that his army could no longer continue hostilities, agreed to Eleftherios Venizelos ' proposal and accepted the Bulgarian request for armistice as this had been communicated through Romania.

H. Bouvier & Co., Bonn, 1949, page 132 Zaharoff convinced Venizelos to attack but, after some impressive initial success, the Greek Army was eventually driven back.

However the main goal was enosis with Greece which came after Eleftherios Venizelos 's constant opposition to Prince George's rule over Crete.

In particular, he set out to ensure that Greece and Venizelos received a proper share from the spoils from the badly weakened Turkey.

In the elections that followed, Constantine’s loyalists managed to force Venizelos to flee, but Zaharoff stayed around to persuade the same King that he had to attack Turkey again.

Since Greece, a maritime country, could not oppose the mighty British navy, and citing the need for a respite after two wars, King Constantine favored continued neutrality, while Venizelos actively sought Greek entry in the war on the Allied side.

The main square of the Old Town (next to the west end of Kasteli) is Eleftherios Venizelos Square, also known as Syntrivani (from Turkish şadırvan 'fountain').

The Military League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the League summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.

The State of Thessaloniki was disestablished with the unification of the two opposing Greek governments under Venizelos, following the abdication of King Constantine in 1917.

Venizelos quickly established himself as a powerful political figure, and his allies won the August 1910 elections.

Yet so deep was the rift in Greek society that on his return to Greece, an assassination attempt was made on Venizelos by two royalist former officers.