PHASIANOS GIORGOS
Giorgos Phasianos (1907-1957) was a physician in Thessaloniki with extensive social and charitable activity. Inter alia, he was an active member of the Red Cross.
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NAVARCHOY VOTSI
Nikolaos Votsis (187-1931) was born in Hydra and he was an officer of the Navy. On October 18, 1912 he sank the Turkish warship Feth-I Bulent inside the port of Thessaloniki. He served as the High Commissioner of Constantinople (1921-1922). He retired in 1922 with the rank of Rear Admiral.
DEMOSTHENES
Demosthenes was a politician and a great orator of the ancient times (384-322 B.C.). He mainly wrote judicial and political speeches. His four Philipics that he directed against King Philip II of Macedonia, are highly renowned.
LEOFOROS NIKIS
LIt was named like this in honour of the victories of the Greek army and especially the liberation of Thessaloniki in 1912. The Greek troops led by King George and Heir Konstantinos paraded in this avenue. Nike was also a goddess of the Greek mythology. (Former Name: VAS.KONSTANTINOU)
ORVILOS
Orvilos is a mountain range in Macedonia, on the borders with Bulgaria. In the ancient times, it is first mentioned by Herodotus and then by Arrian. It was the field of several battles from the Byzantine Times to the Balkan Wars.
DRAGOUMIS ION
Ion Dragoumis was born in 1878. He was a diplomat, politician and intellect. He participated in the Macedonian Struggle and the Balkan Wars. He was one of the founders of the Educational Club. He was murdered in 1920.
VENIZELOU
Eleftherios Venizelos was a politician of modern Greece. He was born in 1864 and he died self-exiled in Paris in 1936. He took part in the Revolution in Crete and he fought for its Union with Greece. He was Prime Minister of Greece in various occasions and he fought for the vision of Megali Idea
ICTINOU
Ictinus was an architect of the 5th century B.C. He worked for the construction of the Parthenon and other renowned temples of antiquity.
MITROPOLITOU IOSIF
Saint Iosif was Archbishop of Thessaloniki, lived in the late 8th and early 9th c. He was born in Constantinople into a pious Christian family and was deeply influenced by the personality of Saint Plato, who was abbot of a monastery in Bithynia. Iosif was a monk in the same monastery, but was exiled to
CHRYSOSTOMOS KALAFATIS
Chrysostomos Kalafatis was born in Triglia of Vithynia in 1867 and died in 1922 in Smyrna, Minor Asia. He was the Metropolitan Bishop of Drama and Philippoi (1902-1910) and then, of Smyrna (1910-1922). He martyred during the Burning of Smyrna. He is commemorated by the Orthodox Church the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy
