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See also:KOUMOUNDOUROS, ALEXANDROS (1814–1883) , See also:Greek statesman, whose name is commonly spelt Coumoundouros, was See also:born in 1814. His studies at the university of See also:Athens were repeatedly interrupted for lack of means, and he began to See also:earn his living as a clerk. He took See also:part in the Cretan insurrection of 1841, and in the demonstration of 1843, by which the Greek constitution was obtained from See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Otto, he was secretary to See also:General Theodoraki Grivas. He then settled down to the See also:bar at See also:Kalamata in See also:Messenia, where he married a See also:lady belonging to the Mavromichalis See also:family. He was elected to the chamber in 1851, and four years later his eloquence and ability had secured the See also:president's See also:chair for him. He became See also:minister of See also:finance in 1856, and again in 1857 and 1859. He adhered to the moderate wing of the Liberal party until the revolution of 1862 and the dethronement of King Otto, when he was minister of See also:justice in the provincial See also:government. He was twice minister of the interior under See also:Kanaris, in 1864 and in 1865. In See also:March 1865 he became See also:prime minister, and he formed several subsequent administrations in the intervals of the ascendancy of Tricoupi. During the Cretan insurrection of 1866–68 he made active warlike preparations against See also:Turkey, but was dismissed by King See also:George, who recognized that See also:Greece could not See also:act without the support of the See also:Powers. He was again premier at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the outbreak
of the insurrection in See also:Thessaly in See also:January 1878, and supported by See also:Delyanni as minister of See also:foreign affairs he sent an See also:army of 1o,000 men to help the insurgents against Turkey. The troops were recalled on the understanding that Greece should be represented at the See also:Congress of See also:Berlin. In See also:October 188o the fall of the Tricoupi See also:ministry restored him to See also:power, when he resumed his warlike policy, but repeated appeals to the courts of See also:Europe yielded little See also:practical result, and Koumoundouros was obliged to reduce his territorial demands and to accept the limited cessions in Thessaly and See also:Epirus, which were carried out in See also:July 1881. His ministry was overturned in 1882 by the votes of the new Thessalian deputies, who were dissatisfied with the administrative arrangements of the new See also:province, and he died at Athens on the 9th of March 1883.
End of Article: KOUMOUNDOUROS, ALEXANDROS (1814–1883)
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