Goudi

English

Etymology

Transliteration of the Greek Γουδή (Goudí).

Proper noun

Goudi

1. (historical) Refers to a suburb of Athens, where significant events took place in Modern Greek history.
   • 2023, Michael Llewellyn-Smith, “The historiography of the Greek-Turkish War in Asia Minor: Britain, Greece, and others, 1915-1923”, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies‎^[1], volume 47, number 2, pages 271–289:

     The reckoning came on 15 November 1922 with the execution of the Six at Goudi in the Athens suburbs.

   • 2021, George Alogoskoufis, “Historical Cycles of the Economy of Modern Greece from 1821 to the Present”, in Hellenic Observatory Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe‎^[2], London School of Economics, page 27:

     The Goudi coup was the first in a series of military interventions in Greek politics that were to follow in the 1920s, but its importance lies mainly in the fact that it prepared the ground for the rise to political dominance of Eleftherios Venizelos, a prominent Cretan politician, whom the coup leaders invited to Athens.

   • 2009, John S. Koliopoulos, Thanos Veremis, Modern Greece A History Since 1821, Wiley, page 66:

     Yet so unaccustomed were they in pressing their demands on the state that the 250 conspirator officers who gathered in the barracks of the Goudi camp on the night of August 14, 1909, presented their grievances in the most timid and polite language.