Greece Km108(C) Greece, Regime Of The Colonels, 2 Drachmai, 1973

The Greek military junta of 1967-1974, commonly known as the Regime of the Colonels, or in Greece simply The Junta and The Seven Years, was a series of far-right military juntas that ruled Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d’état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The dictatorship ended on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The fall of the junta was followed by the Metapolitefsi, and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic.