Difference between pages "Battle of Alamana" and "April 22"

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The '''Battle of Alamana''' was fought between the Greeks and the Turks during the Greek [[War of Independence]].
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==Events==
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*[[1821]]: The [[Battle of Alamana]] takes place during the Greek [[War of Independence]].
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*[[1906]]: The 1906 Athens "Olympiad" commences. This competition was outside the Olympic Games' four-year cycle and was organised in order to revive the Games which were in danger of dying out after the 1904 St Louis circus-like flop.
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*[[1980]]: Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, visits [[Athens]].
  
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In April [[1821]], [[Omer Vrioni]], the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt that had broken out in [[Peloponnesus]].
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==Births==
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[[Athanasios Diakos]], [[Panourgias Panourgias]] and [[Yiannis Dyovouniotis]] with their bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]].
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*[[1909]]: [[Spyros Markezinis]], politician
  
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Vrioni's attack forced Panourgias and Dyovouniotis to retreat, leaving Diakos alone. Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed. Eventually Diakos himself was captured after he was shot in the foot and had his sword broken. He was taken to Vrioni. Vrioni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army but Diakos refused and replied "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek".
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==Deaths==
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*[[1985]]: [[Giorgos Economidis]], radio host, songwriter.
  
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Vrioni then ordered that Diakos be impaled on a spit and roasted over a fire. The Turks tried to make Diakos carry the long spit but he threw it down with contempt. As he was led off to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.
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[[Category:Greek War of Independence|Alamana, Battle of]]
 

Revision as of 12:15, May 14, 2007

Events

  • 1821: The Battle of Alamana takes place during the Greek War of Independence.
  • 1906: The 1906 Athens "Olympiad" commences. This competition was outside the Olympic Games' four-year cycle and was organised in order to revive the Games which were in danger of dying out after the 1904 St Louis circus-like flop.
  • 1980: Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, visits Athens.

Births

Deaths

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