ELAS
English
Proper noun
ELAS
- (politics) ΕΛΑΣ (Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός), the Greek People's Liberation Army, the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (ΕΑΜ) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945.
- 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 190:
- Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 285:
- Looting and street fighting between armed gangs loyal to the Rallis government and to ELAS became daily occurrences in the city.
Further reading
Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el- Greek People's Liberation Army on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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