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    Look up coup d'état in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state'), or simply a coup, is typically...
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    PBSuccess. 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: A military coup brings Alfredo Stroessner to power. Coup d'état of Yanaon: A coup d'état led by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya...
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    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led...
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  • This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government...
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    question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically...
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  • The Coup d'état of December Twelfth or the 12·12 Military Insurrection (Korean: 12·12 군사 반란; Hanja: 十二十二軍事反亂) was a military mutiny which took place on...
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    coup d'état, also known as the 9 September coup d'état (Bulgarian: Деветосептемврийски преврат, romanized: Devetoseptemvriyski prevrat), was a coup that...
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    The 1980 Turkish coup d'état (Turkish: 12 Eylül Darbesi, lit. 'September 12 coup d'état'), headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was...
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    Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August (Romanian: Actul de la 23 august), was a coup d'état led by King...
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    The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador...
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