Greek military junta of 1967–1974
The Greek military junta of 1967–1974, alternatively "The Regime of the Colonels" (, To kathestos ton Syntagmatarhon), or in Greece "The Junta", ( or ; Greek Χούντα, ) and "The Seven Years" (, I eptaetía) are terms used to refer to a series of right-wing military governments that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. Rule by the military started in the morning of 21 April 1967 with a coup d'état led by a group of colonels of the Greek military, and ended in July 1974.