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The exile of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios by the Britishers leads to anti-British riots on the streets in Athens, Greece.

Riots in Greece as the British exile Cyprus Archbishop Makarios. An anti-British mob storms through Athens. Troops are called to control the mob. The mob attacks British buildings and offices and destroys British shops. The troops in army trucks arrive to control the protesters.

Date: 1950, March 2
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044011
People cast their votes during a plebiscite and elect King George II as their ruler in Athens, Greece.

People take part in a plebiscite in Athens, Greece. Soldiers on a street with people gathered along the sides. A soldier casts his vote during the plebiscite. Officials seated at a desk. People loaded on cars as they celebrate the victory of King George II in the plebiscite. People hold pictures of the King. Field Marshal Kondylis in a military uniform.

Date: 1935, November 13
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058976
Armenian refugee boys at a temporary orphanage located in Zappeion Hall in Athens Greece

A group of Armenian orphan boys pose for the camera in a temporary orphange in Athens Greece in Zappeion Exhibition Hall (or Zappion Hall). The orphanage was operating during the timeframe of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey and the subsequent breakup of the Ottomoan Empire. The Armenian children sit and pose. Some of the children stand in background.

Date: 1920
Duration: 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053224
Allied fleet under French vice-Admiral Dartige du Fournet arrives at Piraeus Port of Athens, Greece.

A French pre-dreadnought Liberté class battleship is seen underway in the Piraeus harbor of Athens, Greece during World War 1. She passes another Liberté class ship. Next, both are seen from astern as they head away from the camera. They are accompanied by two small boats. The French Bouclier-class destroyer, Casque, steaming close by at high speed (the only one in that class with only 3 funnels). She appears to have "CO" stenciled on her bow. French admirals and other senior officers pose for a photograph. The Admiral with crossed legs is Vice-Admiral Louis René Charles Dartige du Fournet, Commandant of the French and British Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. The crowded port of Piraeus. A sailor raises the tricolor flag on a French warship. A docked ship with "Seripho, Hamburg" written on her stern. She appears to be flying the French tricolor flag.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054338
British soldiers take up positions in Salonica, Greece, during World War I.

British troops march along open fields in Salonica, Greece during World War 1. They occupy a trench at the front. One uses a periscopic viewer to look over the edge of their trench. One inserts a grenade in his rifle and prepares to fire it. They fire a mortar shell from inside their trench. Exploding mortar rounds are seen on a hillside opposite their position.

Date: 1915
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054342
Scenes in Ithaca, Greece, following a severe earthquake that hit the Ionian Isles..

Aftermath of the disastrous 1953 Ionian earthquake (or the Great Kefalonia earthquake) in Ionian Isles, Greece. Children running away from houses. A wall collapses during the earthquake. Boys running far from a fallen telephone pole. Scenes in city of Ithaca, showing demolished buildings with rubble piled up on ground. Medics carry a casualty on a stretcher. Nurses treat the wounded. Man and woman holding infants. A woman wails as she mourns the loss of her loved ones.

Date: 1953, August 12
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049150