Battle of Konitsa

Battle of Konitsa
DateDecember 24, 1947 – January 15, 1948
Location
Konitsa, Epirus, northwestern Greece
Result Hellenic Army victory
Belligerents

Provisional Democratic Government

Kingdom of Greece

Commanders and leaders
Markos Vafiadis
Georgios Sofianos		 Colonel Konstantinos Dovas (WIA)
Major Georgios Peridis

The Battle of Konitsa was a conflict of the Greek Civil War (1946-1949); between the Communist led Democratic Army of Greece and the Greek Army of the Kingdom of Greece. It was a failed initiative to capture the northwestern Greek town of Konitsa, in order to establish a capital for the Provisional Democratic Government; a rival authority to the recognized government in Athens. This was part of the communist "Operation Limnes" (Lakes) which aimed the capture of a major Greek town.

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