Phantis:Selected anniversaries/August 11
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- 480 BC: The Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Artemisium take place during the Greco-Persian Wars.
- 1903: A major earthquake (7.5 on the Richter scale) rocks the island of Kythira.
- 1996: Tasos Isaak is clubbed to death by Turks in Derynia, Cyprus.
- 1996: Muslim Albanians vandalise the Orthodox church of St Michael, in Moschopolis, southern Albania.
- 2005: Flooding occurs in the northeastern part of Evros prefecture, between Orestiada and Didymoteicho.
- Births: Georgios Karatzaferis (1947), politician