campaign, Cold War

Operation Peristera

Name: Operation Peristera
Location: Peloponnese, Greece

Operation Peristera was a campaign fought in 1948 at Peloponnese, in what is now Greece; it ran into the following year. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Peloponnese. It was part of the Greek Civil War, which ran from 1946 to 1949.

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Fought1948ran into the following year

WherePeloponnese, Greece37.400N, 22.300E, placed at the location, approximate

BelligerentsProvisional Democratic Government (Democratic Army)againstKingdom of Greece (National Army)

Part ofGreek Civil War1946 to 1949

Where it sits in the Greek Civil War

5 placed engagements of the Greek Civil War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1948 (year precision) to 1949
Place	Peloponnese, Greece 37.400N, 22.300E
Kind	Campaign, Cold War

Placed at Peloponnese; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Valtetsi 1821, 8.7 km N
Battle of Megalopolis 331 BC, 14 km W
Siege of Megalopolis 317 BC, 15 km W
Siege of Tripolitsa 1821, 15 km NE
Battle of Doliana 1821, 18 km E

In the same war

Elsewhere in 1948

Operation Peristera is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 529 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q22082260, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Peristera, revision 1370694298, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.