Metaxas Line
id:
metaxas-line-170-13708084
title:
Metaxas Line
text:
The Metaxas Line was a chain of fortifications constructed along the line of the Greco-Bulgarian border, designed to protect Greece in case of a Bulgarian invasion after the rearmament of Bulgaria. It was named after Ioannis Metaxas, then Prime Minister of Greece, and chiefly consists of tunnels that led to observatories, emplacements and machine gun nests. The constructions are so sturdy that they survive to this day, some of which are still in active service. Some of them are open to the publi
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Former fortifications on the Greco-Bulgarian border
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaxas_Line
date created:
2005-04-29T12:27:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T12:27:09Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1355486","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1355486"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Metaxas_line_1941.jpg","width":1170,"height":840}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16