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    The Metaxas Line (Greek: Γραμμή Μεταξά, Grammi Metaxa) was a chain of fortifications constructed along the line of the Greco-Bulgarian border, designed...
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    The Battle of the Metaxas Line (German: Kampf um die Metaxas-Linie), also known in Greece as the Battle of the Forts (Greek: Μάχη των Οχυρών), was the...
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    presented Metaxas with a three-hour ultimatum, demanding free passage for troops to occupy unspecified "strategic sites" within Greek territory. Metaxas rejected...
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    return, Metaxas moved into politics and founded the Freethinkers' Party, but had only limited success under the Second Hellenic Republic. Metaxas was appointed...
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    Metaxa (Greek: Μεταξά) is a line of branded Greek alcoholic drinks, each a flavored amber blend of spirits and Muscat wine, aged in oak barrels, and packaged...
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  • Look up metaxas or metaxa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metaxās or Metaxa may refer to: Metaxas Line, fortifications in northeastern Greece in 1935–1940...
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    known as the Metaxas regime (Καθεστώς Μεταξά, Kathestós Metaxá), was an authoritarian regime under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas that ruled...
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    ouvrages (works) List of Maginot Line ouvrages (works) Metaxas Line Rupnik Line Siegfried Line Footnotes There are 58 ouvrages, 311 casemates, 78 shelters...
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    Ioannis Metaxas' declaration of dictatorship on 4 August 1936. As head of the army and the palace's man, Papagos was a crucial figure in Metaxas' dictatorial...
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    (1875) Hindenburg Line, France (1916) Maginot Line, France (1929) Schuster Line, Luxembourg Metaxas Line, Greece (1936-1941) Mannerheim Line, Finland (1939–1940)...
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