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  1. Cypriot politician, Greek Orthodox archbishop
  2. 1950-77. A leader of the Resistance
  3. organization EOKA, he was exiled by the
  4. British to the Seychelles 1956-57 for
  5. supporting armed action to achieve union with
  6. Greece (enosis). He was president of the
  7. republic of Cyprus 1960-77 (briefly deposed
  8. by a Greek military coup July-Dec 1974).
  9.