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unusual facts about Regime of the Colonels



Dionysios Zakythinos

Zakythinos also served briefly as Minister to the Prime Minister in the interim 1963–64 government of Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, while after the fall of the Regime of the Colonels, he was elected to the Greek Parliament in the November 1974 elections, on the list of the conservative New Democracy party, serving until 1977.


see also

Syntagmatarchis

The Greek military junta of 1967-1974 is also known as "The Regime of the Colonels" because most of its chief leaders were of Colonel rank, including two of the three chief leaders, George Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Makarezos.