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Eleftherios Venizelos

Cretan Greek statesman who shaped modern Greece.

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His liberal-democratic policies profoundly modernized Greece.[1]

Life and work

He earned a law degree with excellent grades from the University of Athens in 1881.[2] He served as Prince George's minister of Justice from 1899 to 1901.[3] His pro-Allied foreign policy caused the National Schism with Constantine I.[4] Following the Allied victory, he secured territorial concessions in Western Anatolia and Thrace.[4]

Venizelos' birthplace was Mournies, a location close to Chania in Ottoman Crete; his parents were Kyriakos Venizelos and Styliani Ploumidaki.[5] In the elections of 2 April 1889, Venizelos began his political career in Crete as a member of the island's liberal party.[6] After seeing Chania in flames, Venizelos went to Malaxa near Chania, where roughly 2,000 rebels had gathered, and he made himself their leader; later, with other rebels, he proposed an attack on Turkish forces at Akrotiri.[2][7] On 10 March 1905, rebels assembled in Theriso and declared the political union of Crete with Greece; this event, known as the Theriso revolt, ended with Prince George's resignation as High Commissioner.[2][8]

What the cited sources add

A 2022 biography by Michael Llewellyn-Smith states that Venizelos' father was "born in Crete, in or around 1810, to a family from the Peloponnese."[9] Contemporary historians Chester and Kerofilas wrote that Venizelos' 18th-century ancestors lived in Mystras under the surname Cravvatas.[10] Venizelos wrote that his father Kyriakos took part in the siege of Monemvasia in 1821 with his brother Hatzinikolos.[9] His mother Styliani Ploumidakis descended from Theriso and was distantly related to a 1821 revolution general.[9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kitromilides 2006, p. 178; Time magazine 1924 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chester 1921, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kitromilides 2006, p. 178; Venizelos Foundation 2008e (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Argus 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Venizelos Foundation 2008a; Macrakis 2006, p. 37; Macrakis 2006, p. 37; Llewellyn-Smith 2022, p. 22; Macrakis 2006, p. 37; Chester 1921, p. 4; Gibbons 1920, p. 3 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ion 1910, p. 277; Venizelos Foundation 2008a; Kitromilides 2006, p. 178 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kitromilides 2006, p. 178 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Venizelos Foundation 2008e (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Patris 2020; Llewellyn-Smith 2022, p. 22; Macrakis 2006, p. 37 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Eleftherios Venizelos" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Macrakis 2006, p. 37; Chester 1921, p. 4; Kerofilas 1915, p. 4; Chester 1921, p. 4 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Eleftherios Venizelos (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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