War, occupation, civil war · War and occupation
Truce terms: ELAS must withdraw 'beyond Myloi'
11 January 1945 Probable
The truce of 11 January 1945 between EAM, the British forces and the government required the ELAS fighters to leave Argos and withdraw 'beyond Myloi'. British troops entered Argos on 19 January 1945. Witnesses remembered a zone 'up to Myloi' for the British and beyond it for the partisans; after the Varkiza agreement the first dividing line in the Peloponnese also ran through Myloi.
- Where
- Myloi (the village), Argos
- Threads
- War and occupation
- Certainty
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
Sources
- Γ. Γιαννούσης, «Οι αντάρτες του ΕΛΑΣ και ο Άρης Βελουχιώτης στο Άργος», argolikivivliothiki.gr, 14-9-2020
- Θ. Βαλτινός, Ορθοκωστά, Αθήνα: Άγρα 1994 (English edition: Orthokostá, Yale University Press 2016) Open (opens in a new tab)
- Κ. Δανούσης, Αναγέννηση (Άργος) 321, Σεπτ. 1994, online: «Οι Γερμανοί στην Αργολίδα το 1941» Open (opens in a new tab)
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28 December 1940
A soldier born in Myloi dies in the military hospital of Mesolongi
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1941–1942
A second German reconnaissance flight photographs the bay
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1941–1943
A coastal gun near the tower of Bouboulina
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