enosis
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of enosis
1935–40; < Modern Greek énōsis, Greek hénōsis union, equivalent to henō-, variant stem of henoûn to unify (derivative of hén, neuter of heîs one) + -sis -sis
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Archbishop Makarios III, born Michael Mouskos, became ethnarch in 1950, armed with a church-run plebiscite that showed 97% of all Greek Cypriots in favor of enosis.
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Makarios at once plunged into the enosis movement, calling for union of Cyprus with Greece, and staged an island-wide plebiscite in which Greek Cypriots voted 97% for enosis.
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The Greeks outnumber the Turks 4 to 1, and long before the island won its independence from Britain in 1960, many Greek Cypriots wanted enosis, or union with Greece.
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However, it pleased few of the Cypriots, since it fulfilled the yearnings for neither enosis nor taksim.
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He is now free to stop paying lip service to enosis and get on with the course he seems to prefer anyhow: making Cyprus a strong independent country.
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