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Ioannis Metaxas ( / ˈmɛtəksæs /; [1] Greek: Ιωάννης Μεταξάς; 12 April 1871 [2] – 29 January 1941) was a Greek military officer and politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. He governed constitutionally for the first four months of his tenure, and thereafter as the strongman leader of the ...
Metaxism ( Greek: Μεταξισμός) is a Greek authoritarian nationalist ideology associated with Ioannis Metaxas. [1] It called for the regeneration of the Greek nation and the establishment of a modern, culturally homogenous Greece. [2] Metaxism disparaged liberalism, and held individual interests to be subordinate to those of the nation ...
Ioannis Metaxas. (Offizielles Foto, 1937) Ioannis Metaxas ( griechisch Ιωάννης Μεταξάς Ioánnis Metaxás früher transkribiert als Johannes Metaxás; * 12. April 1871 in Ithaka; † 29. Januar 1941 in Athen) war ein griechischer General, Politiker und Diktator.
Title / Office: prime minister (1936-1941), Greece. Role In: World War II. Ioannis Metaxas (born April 12, 1871, Ithaca, Greece—died January 29, 1941, Athens) was a general and statesman who was dictator of Greece from 1936 to 1941. After active service in the Greco-Turkish war of 1897, Metaxas completed his military training in Germany.
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The 4th of August Regime (Greek: Καθεστώς της 4ης Αυγούστου, romanized: Kathestós tis tetártis Avgoústou), commonly also known as the Metaxas regime (Καθεστώς Μεταξά, Kathestós Metaxá), was an authoritarian regime under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas that ruled the Kingdom of Greece from 1936 to 1941.
Metaxas, Ioannis. Greek army officer and statesman. Born 12 April 1871 in Ithaca, Greece. Died 29 January 1941 in Athens, Greece. Ioannis Metaxas was a conservative army officer and politician, who influenced decision-making in Greece during World War I by collaborating with King Constantine I. In 1936 he became head of an oppressive ...
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Before Ioannis Metaxas was a politician, he had a successful career in the military. In fact, he made a career of the military and quickly became an officer. The Greco-Turkish War in 1897 was his the first time he was part of a major conflict, and it wouldn’t be the last. As part of the General Staff, he did much to help modernize the Greek Army.
