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Operation Golden Fleece, the Glossary

Operation Golden Fleece (Επιχείρηση Χρυσόμαλλο Δέρας) is a codename given to the non-combatant evacuation operation of ethnic Greeks from the port of Sukhumi, Abkhazia.^[1]

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1993 in Abkhazia
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The Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as Abkhaz ASSR, was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR.

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Abkhazia

Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

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The Abkhazia conflict is a territorial dispute over Abkhazia, a region on the eastern coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Operation Golden Fleece and Abkhazia conflict are Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.

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Abkhazians

The Abkhazians or Abkhazes are a Northwest Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea.

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Adjara

Adjara (აჭარა Ach’ara) or Achara, officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა Ach’aris Avt’onomiuri Resp’ublik’a), is a political-administrative region of Georgia.

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Alexandroupolis

Alexandroupolis (Αλεξανδρούπολη) or Alexandroupoli is a city in Greece and the capital of the Evros regional unit.

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Argonauts

The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Captain (naval)

Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus

The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (CMPC) (Конфедерация горскихнародов Кавказа; (KGNK) until 1991 known as Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus) was a militarised political organisation in the North Caucasus, active around the time of before the collapse of the Soviet Union and after, between 1989 and 2000. Operation Golden Fleece and Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus are Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.

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Cyprus problem

The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot community which runs the Republic of Cyprus (de facto only comprising the south of the island since the events of 1974) and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed.

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Deportation of the Soviet Greeks

The deportation of the Soviet Greeks was a series of forced transfers of Greeks of the Soviet Union that was ordered by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and carried out by the NKVD and the MVD in 1942, 1944 and 1949.

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Embassy of Greece, Moscow

The Embassy of the Hellenic Republic in Moscow is the chief diplomatic mission of Greece in the Russian Federation.

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Fall of Constantinople

The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgian Civil War

The Georgian Civil War lasted from 1991 to 1993 in the South Caucasian country of Georgia. Operation Golden Fleece and Georgian Civil War are Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.

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Golden Fleece

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece (Golden-haired pelt) is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it to Zeus.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greek colonisation

Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

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Greek diaspora

The Greek diaspora, also known as Omogenia (Omogéneia), are the communities of Greeks living outside of Greece and Cyprus.

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Greek genocide

The Greek genocide, which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population of Anatolia, which was carried out mainly during World War I and its aftermath (1914–1922) – including the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923) – on the basis of their religion and ethnicity.

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Greek identity card

The Greek identity card (Δελτίο ταυτότητας, "identification card") is the official national identification document for Greek citizens.

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Greek Military Police

The Military Police (Στρατονομία), is the military police of the Hellenic Army.

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Greeks in Georgia

The Greeks in Georgia, which in academic circles is often considered part of the broader, historic community of Pontic Greeks or—more specifically in this region—Caucasus Greeks, is estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000 people to 100,000 (15,166 according to the latest census (retrieved 5 April 2008)) down from about 100,000 in 1989.

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Gudauta

Gudauta (გუდაუთა,; Гәдоуҭа, Gwdowtha; Гудаута, Gudauta) is a town in Abkhazia, Georgia, and a centre of the eponymous district.

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Hellenic Navy

The Hellenic Navy (HN; War Navy, abbreviated ΠΝ) is the naval force of Greece, part of the Hellenic Armed Forces.

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Hellenization

Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. Operation Golden Fleece and Hellenization are Greek diaspora.

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Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.

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Kathimerini

Kathimerini (Greek: Η Καθημερινή) is a daily, political and financial morning newspaper published in Piraeus, Athens.

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Kommersant

(Коммерсантъ,, The Businessman or Commerce Man, often shortened to Ъ) is a nationally distributed daily newspaper published in Russia mostly devoted to politics and business.

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Konstantinos Mitsotakis

Konstantinos Mitsotakis (Κωνσταντίνος Μητσοτάκης,; – 29 May 2017) was a Greek politician who was Prime Minister of Greece from 1990 to 1993.

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Military attaché

A military attaché or defence attaché (DA),"" Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) sometimes known as a "military diplomat",Prout, John.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece)

The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών) is a government department of Greece, headed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Zografou, a suburban town in the Athens agglomeration, Greece.

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Non-combatant evacuation operation

A Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) is an operation conducted to evacuate civilians from another country, generally due to a deteriorating security situation. Operation Golden Fleece and Non-combatant evacuation operation are non-combatant evacuation operations.

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Paratrooper

A paratrooper or military parachutist is a soldier trained to conduct military operations by parachuting directly into an area of operations, usually as part of a large airborne forces unit.

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Patrol boat

A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.

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Pontic Greeks

The Pontic Greeks (Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Πόντιοι, or Ελληνοπόντιοι,; პონტოელი ბერძნები), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (in Turkey).

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Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (possibly meaning "forethought")Smith,.

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Residence permit

A residence permit (less commonly residency permit) is a document or card required in some regions, allowing a foreign national to reside in a country for a fixed or indefinite length of time.

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Sochi

Sochi (a, from Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia.

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Sukhumi

Sukhumi (see also other names) is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast.

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Tbilisi State University

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (tr; often shortened to its historical name, Tbilisi State University or TSU) is a public research university established on 8 February 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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Travel visa

A visa (lat. 'something seen', pl. visas) is a conditional authorization granted by a polity to a foreigner that allows them to enter, remain within, or leave its territory.

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Treaty of Adrianople (1829)

The Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

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Underwater Demolition Command

The Underwater Demolition Command (Διοίκηση Υποβρυχίων Καταστροφών), abbreviated as DYK (ðik) and known until 2001 as the Underwater Demolition Unit (Μονάδα Υποβρυχίων Καταστροφών), abbreviated as MYK (mik), is the Greek Navy's elite special warfare unit.

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Vladislav Ardzinba

don't want to be part of our country, we will simply drive them out.

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War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)

The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government forces for the most part and Abkhaz separatist forces, Russian government armed forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and 1993. Operation Golden Fleece and war in Abkhazia (1992–1993) are 1993 in Abkhazia and Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.

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1989 Sukhumi riots

The Sukhumi riot was a riot in Sukhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, in July 1989, triggered by an increasing inter-ethnic tensions between the Abkhaz and Georgian communities and followed by several days of street fighting and civil unrest in Sukhumi and throughout Abkhazia. Operation Golden Fleece and 1989 Sukhumi riots are Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Golden_Fleece

, Travel visa, Treaty of Adrianople (1829), Underwater Demolition Command, Vladislav Ardzinba, War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), 1989 Sukhumi riots.

Operation Golden Fleece, the Glossary

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1993 in Abkhazia

1993 in Greece

August 1993 events in Europe

Georgia (country)–Greece relations

Greek diaspora

Military operations involving Greece

Non-combatant evacuation operations

References