Operation Pyravlos

Operation Pyravlos
DateMay 5 - late July 1949
Location
Thessaly, central Greece
Result National Army victory
Belligerents

Greece Provisional Democratic Government

Greece Kingdom of Greece

  • National Army
Commanders and leaders
Greece Unknown Greece General Alexander Papagos
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Greek Civil War
Prelude
  • 5/42 dissolution
  • Meligalas
  • Kilkis
  • Dekemvriana
    • Thiseio-Makrygianni

War

  • Litochoro attack
  • Operation Terminus
  • Operation Limnes
  • Konitsa
  • Thessaloniki bombing)
  • Ierapetra
  • Operation Charavgi
  • Makronisos
  • Kalavryta
  • Operation Koronis
  • Kastoria
  • Operation Peristera
  • Karditsa
  • Naousa
  • Karpenisi
  • Florina
  • Operation Pyravlos
  • Metaxades
  • Operation Pyrsos

Operation Pyravlos (Greek: Επιχείρηση «Πύραυλος», "Rocket") was a military campaign of the Greek Civil War launched by the National Army of the Athens-based internationally recognized government, under General Alexander Papagos. All communist forces in central Greece were defeated and the only areas that remained under communist control were in the Grammos and Vitsi mountains.

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Background
Events (1946-1949)
Communists
National Government
Impact and aftermath
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