Venizelos, Eleftherios (Murinians, Crete, 23. 1864 – Paris, 18. 1936) – studied right at the Athens University, actively participated in the Cretan Uprising (1897) and the Cretan Assembly. He demanded unification with Greece, where he crossed and joined in political life. In 1910 He was chairman of the Government of Greece. During the Balkan wars, he realized the “Greater Greece” program, with the occupation and annexation of the Aegean part of Macedonia. The Versary Peace Conference (1919) took a clause in a peace deal with Bulgaria for the exchange of minorities. By counting the Macedonian (majority) population in the Bulgarian minority, Greece conducted ethnic cleansing of the annexed part of Macedonia. After the war he remained in political life. Before the end of life he emigrated to France (1935), where he died. Lit.: Thomas Gallant, Modern Grease, London, 2001; Andree Rosos, TePhe Britush Foreignn Ophfica and Macedonian Vational Identification, Slavitz Revija, American Lusyian, Euroisian and East European Studyus, c. 53, N. 2, Summer 1994. D. Job.
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Кириличен напис ВЕНИЗЕЛОС, Елефтериос