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    The Battle of Lake Kastoria (Greek: Μάχη λίμνης Καστοριάς) consisted of two parallel engagements north and south of Lake Kastoria (individually known...
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    Kastoria (Greek: Καστοριά, Kastoriá [kastoˈrʝa]) is a city in northern Greece in the region of Western Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria regional...
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    Lake Orestiada or Lake of Kastoria (Greek: Λίμνη Ορεστιάδα) is a lake in the Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, northwestern Greece. It spreads out in...
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    Georgios Stanotas (category Hellenic Army generals of World War II)
    Papadimitriou, The battle of lake Kastoria, article published in the Military History magazine, July 2008. (in Greek) Military record file of General Stanotas...
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    the I/23 battalion and other elements of 13th division the next day, 15 April, in the Battle of Lake Kastoria. The failure to hold the pass had grave...
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    facilitated the breakthrough at the Battle of Lake Kastoria, and the battles at Olympia, Larissa, Volos and Battle of Thermopylae. They also supported the...
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  • Hubertus Hitschhold (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
    facilitated the breakthrough at Kastoria which routed the Epirus Army in the Battle of Lake Kastoria. Through the remainder of April 1941, Hitschhold supported...
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    First Battle of El Alamein: July 1942 Battle of Alam el Halfa: August–September 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein: October–November 1942 Battle of El Agheila:...
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    Doiran Lake (Macedonian: Дојранско Езеро, Dojransko Ezero; Greek: Λίμνη Δοϊράνη, Límni Dhoïráni), also spelled Dojran Lake is a lake with an area of 43.1 km2...
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    community of Mount Athos, which is ecclesiastically under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The remainder of the peninsula...
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    Waffen-SS (category Military history of Germany during World War II)
    prisoners of war at the cost of only six dead and nine wounded. The next day, Meyer captured Kastoria and took another 11,000 prisoners of war. By 20...
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    1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (category Panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS)
    clearing resistance from the Kleisoura Pass south-west of Vevi and driving through to the Kastoria area to cut off retreating Greek and British Commonwealth...
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    south of the city. The former shallow, swampy, and variable-sized Giannitsa Lake or (ancient) Loudias Lake, fed by the Loudias River and south of the city...
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    abode of the Greek Gods, culminates at Mytikas peak 2,918 metres (9,573 ft), the highest in the country. Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands...
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    in Greece". The city of Kastoria, on the shores of the Lake of Kastoria Ancient Dion, Pieria The Lion of Amphipolis, near the Kasta Tomb Ski resort in Falakro...
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  • conflicts between the Greeks and Bulgarians started in the area of Kastoria, in the Giannitsa Lake and elsewhere; both parties committed cruel crimes. Both guerrilla...
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    Florina (category Municipalities of Western Macedonia)
    the road system, of the old town of Kastoria. It is located west of Edessa, northwest of Kozani, and northeast of Ioannina and Kastoria cities. Outside...
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    Macedonian Struggle (category History of the Aromanians)
    conflicts between the Greeks and Bulgarians started in the area of Kastoria, in the Giannitsa Lake area, and elsewhere. During 1905, guerilla activity increased...
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    Kozani Airport, and Kastoria Airport; the two busiest airports, Thessaloniki and Kavala, are operated by Fraport. The Port of Thessaloniki is Greece's...
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    It is located north of Kozani, east of Kastoria, south of Florina, and south-west of Edessa. The municipal unit has an area of 217.901 km2, the community...
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  • (Thessaloniki) Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance Museum of the Kalavryta Holocaust Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Kastoria) Pavlos Melas...
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    ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated...
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    most of the low-lying areas of Boeotia are found. Lake Copais was a large lake in the center of Boeotia. It was drained in the 19th century. Lake Yliki...
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    River Vardar and captured the castle of Longos. After that he marched south and besieged Kastoria. Under the walls of the town Basil II received messages...
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    Castor and Pollux (category Children of Leda (mythology))
    was also venerated in the region of Kastoria in northern Greece. They were commemorated both as gods on Olympus worthy of holocaust, and as deceased mortals...
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    Enna (redirect from Navel of Sicily)
    (Mediterranean Climate). Mancomunidad de la Costa del Sol Occidental, Spain Kastoria, Greece Għarb, Malta Craiova, Romania Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrn...
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    The city of Thessaloniki in Macedonia, Greece, for several centuries the second-most important city of the Byzantine Empire, played an important role...
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    heard of incursions by the Dardani in the north and the Carthaginian victory over the Romans at the Battle of Lake Trasimene in 217 BC. Demetrius of Pharos...
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  • Lazaros Tsamis (category Greek people of Aromanian descent)
    partner of Germanos Karavaggelis, Bishop of Kastoria, and the Greek Consulate of Bitola. Lazarus and his brother Papastavros organized a dense network of information...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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