Operation Pyravlos

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Operation Pyravlos
Date May 5 – late July 1949 Location Thessaly, central Greece Result National Army victory
Belligerents
Provisional Democratic Government Democratic Army	Kingdom of Greece National Army
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	General Alexander Papagos

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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