Konstantinos Raktivan was born in Manchester and died in Athens in 1935. He was a jurist and politician. He was the first representative of the Greek government in the liberated – after 1912 – areas, being assigned with their administrative restructuring. He was elected President of the Athens Academy and of the Council of State
Raidestos was a city in East Thrace, an important port on the coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was founded in the 6th century B.C. and it flourished culturally and commercially. Until the Exchange of Populations, it had a prosperous Greek community, which later fled to Greece.
“Kidoniatis or Kidonis. He was prominent and famous for his education in Thessaloniki, a friend of the Byzantine emperor Ioannis Kantakouzinos and Manouil II Palaiologos. His son Anastasios, born in Thessaloniki in 1770, was one of the national martyrs who had a torturous death by the Turks when the Revolution of 1821 broke out. He
Athanasios Tsakalov- Tekelis or Tsakalos was born in Ioannina and died in Moscow in 1851. He was one of the founders of Filiki Eteria, the secret organisation aiming at preparing the liberation of the enslaved Greeks. He took part to the Revolution of 1821 and he was also the plenipotentiary of Epirus at the 4th
Antonios Keramopoulos (1870-1960) was a university professor and academic. A systematic researcher of archeology, he wrote many studies about the life of the ancient Greeks and carried out several excavations. Information from the book by Aristides Kesopoulos “THE NAME OF THE ROADS OF THESSALONIKI”, MALLIARIS – PAIDEIA SA publications.
Efstathios Tsopelas was born in 1920 in Athens and he was an army officer. Fighting with the Sacred Squadron as a lieutenant, he was killed on Symi island (Dodecanese), on the 14th of July 1944.
Vlasios Tsirogiannis was born in Kravasara in 1872 and died in 1928. He was an army officer who took part in the war of 1897, the Macedonian Struggle, during which he used the nom-de-guerre Dalis, the Balkan Wars and the Minor Asia Campaign (Greco-Turkish War).
Timoleon was born in Corinth and he was a politician and General of the 4th century B.C. He took military action in Sicily against Carthage and he contributed in the reconstruction of Syracuse. He died in Sicily.
Ioannis Prasakakis (1792 – 1884) was a physician and offered his services in the struggle for independence. In Thessaloniki he participated in the treatment of a cholera epidemic that affected the city and contributed to the construction and operation of Theagenio Hospital. He left with his will significant amounts in educational institutions and schools of
Tripoli is a city in the Peloponnese. Its location was of major strategic importance during the military operations of the Revolution of 1821. Its siege in 1821 and its destruction a few years later by IIbrahim Pasha are two very important events. Earlier, it was called Tripolitsa.
