Democratic Army of Greece

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communist guerrilla army military wing of a political party

The Democratic Army of Greece was the communist-led military force that fought against the Greek government and its allies during the Greek Civil War in the late 1940s.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	communist guerrilla army → military wing of a political party →
activePeriod	late 1940s →
allies	local communist partisans →
causeOf	large-scale internal displacement in Greece →
commander	Markos Vafiadis → Nikolaos Zachariadis → Vasilis Bartziotas →
conflict	Greek Civil War →
country	Greece →
dissolved	1949 →
endTime	1949 →
foundedBy	Communist Party of Greece →
goal	establishment of a socialist regime in Greece → overthrow of the Greek monarchy-backed government →
hasAlternativeName	DSE → Dimokratikos Stratos Elladas →
headquarters	mountainous regions of northern Greece →
historicalPeriod	early Cold War →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism → communism →
language	Greek →
leader	Markos Vafiadis →
militaryBranchOf	Communist Party of Greece →
notableBattle	Battle of Grammos → Battle of Vitsi → operations in the Peloponnese →
operationalArea	Central Greece → Northern Greece → Peloponnese →
opposedTo	Government of Greece → Greek National Army → United Kingdom → United States →
parentOrganization	Communist Party of Greece →
partOf	Greek Civil War →
precededBy	Greek People’s Liberation Army →
recruitsFrom	former members of the Greek People’s Liberation Army → rural population of Greece →
resultOf	post–World War II political tensions in Greece →
startTime	1946 →
status	defeated →
supportedBy	People’s Republic of Albania → People’s Republic of Bulgaria → Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia →
timeInForce	3 years →
usesTactic	conventional warfare in later stages → guerrilla warfare →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Battle of Grammos–Vitsi → Battle of Vitsi → Greek National Army →	opponent
Battle of Grammos–Vitsi → Battle of Vitsi →	belligerent
Grammos Mountains → Mount Vitsi →	usedBy
Battle of Vitsi ("Democratic Army of Greece guerrilla forces") →	combatant
Battle of Grammos–Vitsi →	combatant2
Democratic Army of Greece ("Dimokratikos Stratos Elladas") →	hasAlternativeName
Greek Civil War →	mainBelligerent
Markos Vafiadis →	militaryBranch
Democratic Army of Greece ("Δημοκρατικός Στρατός Ελλάδας") →	nativeName
Greek People’s Liberation Army →	successor