Eleftherios Venizelos facts for kids

Elefthérios Venizélos
Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος
Elefthérios Venizélos; Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος
Prime Minister of Greece
	In office; 6 October 1910 – 25 February 1915
Monarch	George I; Constantine I
Preceded by	Stefanos Dragoumis
Succeeded by	Dimitrios Gounaris
	In office; 10 August 1915 – 24 September 1915
Monarch	Constantine I
Preceded by	Dimitrios Gounaris
Succeeded by	Alexandros Zaimis
	In office; 14 June 1917 – 4 November 1920
Monarch	Alexander
Preceded by	Alexandros Zaimis
Succeeded by	Dimitrios Rallis
	In office; 24 January 1924 – 19 February 1924
Monarch	George II
Preceded by	Stylianos Gonatas
Succeeded by	Georgios Kafantaris
	In office; 4 July 1928 – 26 May 1932
President	Pavlos Kountouriotis; Alexandros Zaimis
Preceded by	Alexandros Zaimis
Succeeded by	Alexandros Papanastasiou
	In office; 5 June 1932 – 4 November 1932
President	Alexandros Zaimis
Preceded by	Alexandros Papanastasiou
Succeeded by	Panagis Tsaldaris
	In office; 16 January 1933 – 6 March 1933
President	Alexandros Zaimis
Preceded by	Panagis Tsaldaris
Succeeded by	Alexandros Othonaios
Prime Minister of the Cretan State
	In office; 2 May 1910 – 6 October 1910
Preceded by	Alexandros Zaimis (as High Commissioner)
Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Cretan State
	In office; 1908–1910
Minister of Justice of the Cretan State
	In office; 17 April 1899 – 18 March 1901
Personal details
Born	23 August 1864; Mournies, Crete, Ottoman Empire; (now Eleftherios Venizelos, Crete, Greece)
Died	18 March 1936 (aged 71); Paris, France
Nationality	Greek
Political party	Liberal Party
Spouse(s)	Maria Katelouzou (1891-1894); Elena Skylitsi (1921-1936)
Relations	Constantine Mitsotakis (nephew)
Children	Kyriakos Venizelos; Sophoklis Venizelos
Alma mater	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Profession	Politician; Revolutionary; Legislator; Lawyer; Jurist; Journalist; Translator

Eleftherios Venizelos (full name Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, Greek: Ἐλευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος; 23 August 1864 – 18 March 1936) was a Greek politician. He served as Prime Minister of Greece serving from 1910 to 1920 and again from 1928 to 1932.

Images for kids

The house of Venizelos in Mournies.
Portrait of Kyriakos Venizelos, father of Eleftherios.
Venizelos at Akrotiri, 1897.
Ethnic composition of the Balkans according to the Atlas Général Vidal-Lablache, Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1898.
Ethnic composition map of the Balkans by the Greek diplomat Ioannis Gennadius, published by the English cartographer E. Stanford in 1877.
Venizelos at the beginning of the 20th century.
A speech by Venizelos on 25 March 1905.
With the Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pasic in 1913
Venizelos with Constantine
Demonstration in Greece during the Balkan Wars with the words "Long Live Venizelos".
The "Triumvirate of National Defence" in Thessaloniki. L-R: Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, Venizelos, and General Panagiotis Danglis.
The 1st Battalion of the National Defence army marches before the White Tower on its way to the front.
French troops in Athens, with the Acropolis in the background, after the Noemvriana.
Greek lithograph depicting Venizelos along with the principal Allied leaders of World War I, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Ferdinand Foch and Woodrow Wilson.
Painting depicting Greek military units in the WWI Victory Parade in Arc de Triomphe, Paris. July 1919.
Photo of the members of the commission of the League of Nations created by the Plenary Session of the Preliminary Peace Conference, Paris, France 1919. Venizelos is on the right.
Caricature related to the 1920 parliamentary election, depicting Venizelos and his main political opponent Dimitrios Gounaris.
Venizelos with Kemal Ataturk in Ankara; October 27, 1930.
Venizelos, wearing his typical side cap, sitting at his desk (1930).
A statue in Theriso, Crete.
The council of Crete in which Venizelos participated. He is the second from the left.
The committee for the drafting of a new constitution for Crete in 1906–07.
The boundaries of the Balkan states before the Balkan Wars.
Territorial changes as a result of the First Balkan war, as of April 1913.
Bust of Eleftherios Venizelos in Belgrade, Serbia.
Venizelos reviews a section of the Greek army on the Macedonian front during the First World War, 1918. He is accompanied by Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis (left) and General Maurice Sarrail (right).
Map of Greater Greece after the Treaty of Sèvres, when the Megali Idea seemed close to fulfillment, featuring Eleftherios Venizelos.
Eleftherios Venizelos on the cover of Time magazine, 18 February 1924.
Venizelos' gravestone in Akrotiri, near Chania, Crete.