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 Translation for 'coup d'état' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a coup d'état | coups d'état
stjórn.
valdarán {hv}
coup d'état
Partial Matches
náðarhögg {hv} [líka óeiginl.]coup de grâce [also fig.]
þvermál {hv}diameter <d, D, ⌀, DIA, dia>
lífefnaf
D-vítamín {hv}
vitamin D
fyrirframborgun {kv}cash before delivery <c.b.d.>
fyrirframgreiðsla {kv}cash before delivery <c.b.d.>
Ég ætla fá fimm 10p frímerki.I'd like five ten-penny stamps, please.
Ég ætla panta einn miða á föstudaginn.I'd like to book a ticket for Friday.
Ég ætla fá tvo miða á svölum.I'd like two tickets in the dress circle.
landaf.
Fílabeinsströndin {kv}
Côte d'Ivoire <.ci> [official name for Ivory Coast]
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Usage Examples English
  • It is also believed that Abu Bakr and Umar conspired to take over power in the Muslim nation after Muhammad's death, in a coup d'état against Ali.
  • Initially led by Cánovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a civilian regime that lasted until Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup d'état.
  • Turkey continued to spin out of control with military curfews and the 1980 Turkish coup d'état on September 12, 1980.
  • The attempted coup d'état by Silius and Messalina had probably made Claudius realize the weakness of his position as a member of the Claudian but not the Julian family.
  • The 19–21 August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt led to the abandonment of this reorganisation.

  • Immediately after the 1974 Greek-sponsored coup d'état and the Turkish invasion, Makarios secured international recognition of his administration as the legitimate government of the whole island.
  • On 15 July 1974, the Greek military junta under Dimitrios Ioannides carried out a coup d'état in Cyprus, to unite the island with Greece.
  • On 31 December 1965, Dacko was overthrown in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly.
  • Nazım Pasha, Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army, was held responsible for the failure and was assassinated on 23 January 1913 during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état.
  • Gottwald and the communists responded with a "coup d'état" and installed a pro-Soviet authoritarian state.

  • This release effort resulted in yet another military coup d'état on August 4, 1983.
  • In 1889, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca declared the republic, by a coup d'état.
  • In the case of the latter, the 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état was cited by the coup leaders as due to Angola's involvement in trying to "reform" the military in connivance with the civilian leadership.
  • Following the Kornilov Affair, an attempted military coup d'état at the end of August, and the resignation of the other ministers, he appointed himself Supreme Commander-in-Chief as well.
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