E.L.A.S.

Or ELAS

abbreviation

Hellenic People's Army of Liberation, the military organization of the EAM: Greek resistance force in World War II.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of E.L.A.S.¹

First recorded in 1943; from Modern Greek E(thnikòs) L(aikòs) A(peleutherōtikòs) S(tratós)

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Example Sentences

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But in 1942 two mutually suspicious Greek guerrilla detachments�one made up of E.D.E.S. nationalists and the other of E.L.A.S.

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Undoubtedly there are many in the E.L.A.S. who are hardly conscious of the aims of the party's innermost core, but those who profess to know them see endless complications in store from a new type of tyranny that, they say, has already been manifested.

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The two Greek guerrilla forces �E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. �had promised cooperation.

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The E.L.A.S. holds sway through force of arms.

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And that was impossible without the support of E.L.A.S., which was controlled by the Communists.

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