Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 Army

Hellenic Army

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 officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General

Lieutenant General

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Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul

Istanbul

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 in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe in 1912 and 1913.By the early 20th century, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia, the countries of the Balkan League, had achieved their independence from the Ottoman Empire, but large parts of their ethnic...

, where he held the rank of Colonel and commanded the 6th Infantry Division. During the First World War, he supported the Venizelist Movement of National Defence

Movement of National Defence

The Movement of National Defence was an uprising by Venizelist officers of the Hellenic Army in Thessaloniki in August 1916 against the royal government in Athens. It led to the establishment of a separate, Venizelist Greek government in the north of the country, which entered the First World...

, and became Minister of War in the provisional government on 6 December 1916. In 1919, as a Lieutenant General, he became the first head of the Army of Occupation in the Smyrna Zone allocated to Greece by the Treaty of Sèvres

Treaty of Sèvres

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, until the arrival of Lt Gen Leonidas Paraskevopoulos

Leonidas Paraskevopoulos

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. He was dismissed from the Army on 29 November 1920, following the Venizelist defeat in the elections

Greek legislative election, 1920

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of the same month.

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