ELAS

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See also: elas, elás, and -elas

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ELAS

  1. (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.

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