The
Greek military junta of 1967–74, commonly known as the
Regime of the Colonels (, , ), or in Greece simply
The Junta ( or ; , ),
The Dictatorship (, ) and
The Seven Years (, ), was a series of
right-wing military juntas that ruled
Greece following the 1967 Greek coup d'état led by a group of colonels on 21 April 1967. The
dictatorship ended on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the
Turkish invasion of Cyprus.