The Movement of National Defence (Greek: Κίνημα της Εθνικής Αμύνης) 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 (the "Provisional Government of National Defence") in the north of the country, which entered the First World War on the side of the Allies. This was a defining moment in the development of the great National Schism in Greece, whose effects would endure until after the Second World War.
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