andarte

plural andartes · alternative andartis

1. A Greek guerrilla fighter, especially as part of the Resistance during the Second World War.

   ‘Many of the andartes on the mainland are women,’ said Corelli, ‘and many of the partisans in Yugoslavia.’

   1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 351

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   Myers now learned of the proximity of another andarte leader, known as Aris Veloukhiotis, but Aris did not even answer the messages Myers sent him […].

   1975, Henry Maule, Scobie, Hero of Greece, page 18

   Thus andarte-controlled territory or ‘free Greece’ became divided from German- or Italian-controlled territory, which steadily dwindled from the second half of 1942, and by mid-1943 was reduced to the plains.

   1995, David H Close, The Origins of the Greek Civil War, Routledge, published 2013, page 74