επανάσταση
by lefteris karafotias
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In 1821, the Greeks decided to cross the Rubicon and gain their freedom from the Turks. After many obstacles, disunity, blood and toil, they succeeded it. Almost a century later, the British Winston Churchill stated that the nations who submit never rise again, where the ones who fall during fight, one day they regain their freedom.
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1 Έξοδος Μεσολογγίου
A few years before 1821, a fiery visionary of the Greek Independence war, Rigas Feraios wrote Thourios (1797), a revolutionary, patriotic anthem, inspiring the Greek warriors of 1821. To this day, standouts the renowned phrase, better an hour of freedom than forty years of slavery and imprisonment.
This phrase is in harmony with the accompanying artwork of Theodoros Vryzakis of 1853. This work depicts the heroic Exodus of the town of Messolonghi in April 1826 during the siege by the Turkish-Egyptian army, which stigmatized the Greek Independence war, and proved to Greeks and foreigners, that Greeks are no longer willing to surrender but prefer to die fighting for their freedom.
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επανάσταση
by lefteris karafotias
unknown breadwinner
In 1821, the Greeks decided to cross the Rubicon and gain their freedom from the Turks. After many obstacles, disunity, blood and toil, they succeeded it. Almost a century later, the British Winston Churchill stated that the nations who submit never rise again, where the ones who fall during fight, one day they regain their freedom.
> Tee story
1 / Έξοδος Μεσολογγίου /
A few years before 1821, a fiery visionary of the Greek Independence war, Rigas Feraios wrote Thourios (1797), a revolutionary, patriotic anthem, inspiring the Greek warriors of 1821. To this day, standouts the renowned phrase, better an hour of freedom than forty years of slavery and imprisonment.
This phrase is in harmony with the accompanying artwork of Theodoros Vryzakis of 1853. This work depicts the heroic Exodus of the town of Messolonghi in April 1826 during the siege by the Turkish-Egyptian army, which stigmatized the Greek Independence war, and proved to Greeks and foreigners, that Greeks are no longer willing to surrender but prefer to die fighting for their freedom.
