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    Agia Lavra ("Holy Lavra") is a monastery near Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It was built in 961 AD, on Chelmos Mountain, at an altitude of 961 meters, and...
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    Great Lavra, Mount Athos (10th century): Georgian Orthodox Church: David Gareja monastery complex (since 1505)[citation needed] Church of Greece: Agia Lavra...
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    on 21 March 1821 the flag of the revolt was raised at the monastery of Agia Lavra by bishop Germanos III of Old Patras. At the end of 1943, near Kalavryta...
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    the north Peloponnese due to his skull being kept in the monastery of Agia Lavra. Alexius is a patron saint of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of...
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    proper): Patras 169,886 Aigio 19,857 Kato Achaia 7,689 The monastery Agia Lavra is situated a few kilometres west of Kalavryta on the top of a hill. 12...
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    Germanos of Patras, who raised the banner with the cross in the Monastery of Agia Lavra (near Kalavryta, Achaea) although some historians question the historicity...
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    Ottoman Empire and blessed the flag of the revolution at the Monastery of Agia Lavra. Earlier, another revolt of the Greek War of Independence had also been...
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    children to escape. The following day the German troops burned down the Agia Lavra monastery, a landmark of the Greek War of Independence. During the reprisals...
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    monument guard. At the same time, a torch was brought from the monastery of Agia Lavra to light the eternal flame in the centre of the cenotaph. The Tomb is...
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  • Metropolitan Germanos of Patras blesses a big Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra in Peloponnesia and proclaims to people assembled the beginning of a Greek...
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    raised the banner of independence on 10 March 1821, at the Monastery of Agia Lavra. It was after the Bey of Tripoli imprisoned and threatened to execute...
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    positions in private residences. The 2nd Taygetus Battalion had entered the Agia Lavra monastery during the early morning hours of the day, seizing its abbot...
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    Patras blessing the flag of the Greek revolutionaries at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, part of a popular legend regarding the start of the revolution of 1821...
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    Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the...
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    Agia Lavra - Chelmos Ski Station: Since 1996 OSE. has been planning an extension of the line from Kalavrita to the historic Monastery of Agia Lavra and...
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  • Fokionos Negri Str., Kypseli Kypseli 2-124 1-111 Agias Lavras Αγίας Λαύρας Agia Lavra 1,120 m (3,670 ft) Patission Str., Ano Patisia Chatzidaki Str., Ano Patisia...
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    blessed by Metropolitan Germanos III of Old Patras at the Monastery of Agia Lavra.. Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos the Burning Bush, on Mount Sinai...
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    Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the...
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  • Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the...
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    arguments the meeting was postponed for a later time in the monastery of Agia Lavra. In January 1821 meetings took place with Papaflessas recounting his supplies...
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    proclaimed a national uprising against the Ottoman empire at the Monastery of Agia Lavra. Jerusalem's Christian population, who were estimated to make up around...
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    Germanos" (celebre Germanos) proclaimed the Revolution on 17 March 1821 in Agia Lavra, and that the revolution spread throughout the Peloponnese on 25 March...
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  • of Patras raises the revolutionary flag of Greece at the Monastery of Agia Lavra (according to oral tradition, not historical record), symbolically marking...
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    Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the...
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  • Day of Annunciation (25 March), also Kyrio-Pascha, at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, Peloponnese; martyrdom of Patr. Gregory V of Constantinople, Abp. Kyprianos...
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    Stadium in Athens, Greece To the Defeated of Life (large work in 12 parts) Agia Lavra Liberation of Chios Island The Bacchae The Sceptic The Bathing Woman Muhammad...
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    Germanos III of Old Patras blessing the blue and white Greek banner at Agia Lavra at the outset of the national revolt against the Ottoman Empire on 25...
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    Ypsila Alonia, which now houses a cafeteria The beach promenade Plateia Agias Lavras is also a square in the centre of the town, and is lined with neoclassical...
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  • Kiev Pechersk Lavra Manyava Skete Mezhyhirya Monastery Mhar Monastery Pochayiv Lavra St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery Sviatohirsk Lavra Trakhtemyrov...
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    (hermitage-style) skete, a monastic community attached to the more formalised Great Lavra Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece. It lies on the shore of the Aegean Sea...
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