biography
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George II (of Greece)
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| lived:
| (1890–1947)
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| biography:
| King of Greece (1922–4, 1935–47), born near Athens, Greece. He first came to the throne after the second deposition of his father, Constantine I. He was himself driven out in 1924, but was restored in late 1935 after a plebiscite. When Greece was overrun by the Germans, he withdrew to Crete, then to Egypt and Britain. After a plebiscite in 1946 in favour of the monarchy, he re-ascended the Greek throne, and died in Athens. |
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