Operation Pyravlos Explained

Place:Thessaly, central Greece
Date:May 5 – late July 1949
Combatant1: Provisional Democratic Government
Combatant2: Kingdom of Greece
Commander2: General Alexander Papagos
Result:National Army victory
Conflict:Operation Pyravlos
Commander1: Unknown

Operation Pyravlos (el|Επιχείρηση «Πύραυλος», "Rocket") was a military campaign of the Greek Civil War launched by the National Army of the Athens-based internationally recognized government, under General Alexander Papagos. All communist forces in central Greece were defeated and the only areas that remained under communist control were in the Grammos and Vitsi mountains.