Impressive details from the daily life of 20 days Battle of Distomo by G. Karaiskaki as well as all the elements that highlight the crucial importance it had for the whole outcome of the Greek Revolution of ’21 the victorious dissolution of the Turkish siege in this village of Boeotia were presented on Sunday at the Internet event for 195 years of the Battle of Distomo.
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The intelligent movements of Karaiskakis and especially the cruise energy of the “son of Kalogria” taught in commando schools, the forces that participated – among them the Souliotes and the Livadites – and their role the participation of the popular element (the inhabitants) in support of the fighters, the first appearance of the Turkish regular army and the initial confusion it caused, the plans for the promotion of Karaiskakis’s Headquarters in Distomo and the letters sent from there by the General … All these – and not only – were presented at the event by Dr. Modern History Mich. Lymperatos, (“The importance of the Battle of Distomo for the evolution of the Revolution”) and Amalia Papaioannou, Archaeologist, curator of the Museum of the Victims of Distomo Nazism (“The chronicle of the Battle of Distomo through” the primary sources , the Mayor of Distomo, Arachova, Antikyra Giannis Stathas and the coordinating journalist, Loukas Dimakas.
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