1821-2021

A Tribute To The Real Heroes

“To erase a part from the past is like erasing an equal part from the future"
Georgios Seferis.(Greek poet 1900-1971)

The 10+1 Most Important Figures of Greek Independence

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Dionysios Solomos

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ANIMATED HEROES

THE GREEK FLAG

The Greek Anthem in English

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Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") and philhellene ("the admirer of Greeks and everything Greek"), from the Greek φίλος philos "friend, lover" and ἑλληνισμός hellênismos "Greek",

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The mountains look on Marathon --
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dream'd that Greece might yet be free
For, standing on the Persians' grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.
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Must we but weep o'er days more blest?
Must we but blush? – Our fathers bled.
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three,
To make a new Thermopylae.
Byron, The Isles of Greece[40]

" The Isles of Greece " by Lord Byron

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Dionysios Solomos was a Greek poet from Zakynthos.

Native name Διονύσιος Σολωμός
(Dionysios Solomos)
Born (ON) 8 April (IN) 1798
Died 9 February 1857 (aged 58)

useful vocabulary
dreadful = awful / frightening
vision= sight
valour= heroism / courage
bold = being brave
liberty = freedom
Hail = (Roman greeting) Χαίρε !

Symbolism of the Flag of Greece
Design : ( 9 ) Nine horizontal stripes, in turn blue and white;
a white Greek cross throughout a blue canton.

The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "blue and white" (GREEK: Γαλανόλευκη, Galanólefki) or the "sky blue and white" (Κυανόλευκη, Kyanólefki), is officially recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols and has nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner (emblem) bearing a white cross;

The cross symbolises Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the basic religion of Greece. It was officially adopted on 13 January 1822.

According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ ή ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ("Freedom or Death"), the five blue stripes for the syllables Ελευθερία and the four white stripes ή Θάνατος

There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolise the nine Muses ,the goddesses of art and civilisation (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks)

White and blue have been interpreted as symbolising the colours of the sky and sea

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ANIMATED HEROES OF THE GREEK REVOLUTION 1821 AGAINST THE OTTOMANS