Missolonghi or Mesolongi (Greek: Μεσολόγγι, pronounced [mesoˈloɲɟi]) is a municipality of 32,048 people (according to the 2021 census) in western Greece...
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The Third Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Τρίτη Πολιορκία του Μεσσολογίου, often erroneously referred to as the second siege) was fought in the Greek War...
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The siege of Missolonghi may refer to one of three different sieges of the town of Missolonghi during the Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of...
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Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (French: La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi) is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now...
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Missolonghi (Greek: Πρώτη πολιορκία του Μεσολογγίου) was an attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during...
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The Second Siege of Missolonghi was the second attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during the third year...
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Eugène Delacroix (section Chios and Missolonghi)
capture of Missolonghi by Turkish forces in 1825. With a restraint of palette appropriate to the allegory, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi displays...
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taking Missolonghi and thus securing western Greece. Reşid Mehmed assembled an army of more than 35,000 and in February 1825 he set out for Missolonghi. On...
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The Missolonghi Lagoon (Greek: Λιμνοθάλασσα Μεσολογγίου, Limnothalassa Mesolongiou) is a shallow lagoon located in the south of Aetolia-Acarnania, Western...
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Lord Byron (category Missolonghi)
of 36, from a fever contracted after the first and second sieges of Missolonghi. His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding...
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The sortie (exodus) of Messolonghi, depicting the third siege of Missolonghi, painted by Theodoros Vryzakis...
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Ancona and Brindisi in Italy and to Cephalonia. On the northern shore Missolonghi, also has a port. The old ports of Rio and Antirrio lie at the east end...
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Markos Botsaris (category Missolonghi)
of Independence. He played a key role in relieving the First Siege of Missolonghi in 1822–1823 and was awarded the title of General of Western Greece by...
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Central Greece, by the forces of the Ottoman Empire. Following the fall of Missolonghi in western Greece, Athens and the Acropolis remained the only strongholds...
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Office in New Orleans - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe - Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi - Haymaking in the Auvergne - La Loge - Portrait of Alphonse Leroy -...
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Ioannis Trikoupis (category People from Missolonghi)
Missolonghi – 30 July 1824 in Missolonghi) was a Greek politician of the Greek War of Independence. Ioannis Trikoupis was born in 1750 in Missolonghi...
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Armadillidium vulgare Male A. vulgare from Missolonghi, Greece Female A. vulgare from Missolonghi Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom:...
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Menidi Mesarista Milea Missolonghi Molykreio Monastiraki Mousoura Myrtea Mytikas Naupactus Nea Avorani Neapoli Neochori, Missolonghi Neochori, Nafpaktia...
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Stamna, Greece (category Missolonghi)
17 km southwest of Agrinio and 21 km northwest of Missolonghi. The Ionia Odos motorway (Missolonghi - Amfilochia) passes east of the village. The community...
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force under Markos Botsaris during the Revolution. He was present in Missolonghi on 4 November 1821 during the formation of the Senate of Western Continental...
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participating in the Network. These include Alonnisos Marine Park, while the Missolonghi–Aitoliko Lagoons and the island of Zakynthos are not on the Aegean. The...
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of Antirrio, 18 km (11 mi) northeast of Patras, 35 km (22 mi) east of Missolonghi and 45 km (28 mi) southeast of Agrinio. The Greek National Road 48/E65...
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giving a speech when the news of Missolonghi's fall reached him, leaving him to remember: "the news came to us that Missolonghi was lost. We were all plunged...
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force under Mustafa Pasha heading to reinforce Ottoman troops besieging Missolonghi 1823 Afghan–Sikh Wars Battle of Nowshera 14 March Sikhs take Peshawar...
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Acarnania, it is the country's largest regional unit. Its capital is Missolonghi for historical reasons, with its biggest city and economic centre at...
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Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt attacks Missolonghi...
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the larger Missolonghi Lagoon (a bay of the Gulf of Patras) to the south by the island of Aitoliko, but together they form the Missolonghi–Aitoliko Lagoons...
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035 mi), while the length of the metre gauge lines (excluding Krioneri–Missolonghi–Agrinio line) is about 725 km (450 mi). In addition, about 150 km (93 mi)...
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Province - Kalavryta Patras Province - Patras Aetolia-Acarnania Missolonghi Province - Missolonghi Nafpaktia Province - Nafpaktos Trichonida Province - Agrinio...
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fairness, is expressed in a series of letters addressed to him from Missolonghi by Lord Byron early in 1824, which are preserved in Moore's 'Life of...
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