Significant1955 – 1959 · 4 years

Cyprus Emergency

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Nicosia · Cyprus

Estimated casualties

500 – 600estimated dead

About 371 British military and 21 police killed plus Cypriot fighters and civilians; total roughly 500+.

SOURCEscholarly

An anti-colonial insurgency in British Cyprus from 1955 to 1959 waged by EOKA, a Greek Cypriot guerrilla organisation seeking union (enosis) with Greece. It ended with the 1959 Zürich-London agreements granting Cyprus independence in 1960.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
EOKA (Greek Cypriot guerrillas)

Sources

Wikipedia: Cyprus Emergency
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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