She is a Saint of the Orthodox Church. She was born in Caesarea, Cappadocia in A.D. 828. She was a nun and the abbess of the Coenobitic Monastery of Great Taxiarches Michael and Gabriel, on the outskirts of Constantinople. She is commemorated on the 28th of July.
Konstantinos Aggelakis (1874-1965) was a physician and politician. He was the Mayor of Thessaloniki from 1916 to 1920. He was also member of the committee that drafted the new street plan of Thessaloniki after the great fire of Thessaloniki in 1917.
It is probably dedicated to one of the three main Christian virtues, along with hope and faith. It is also the name of: a female Saint of the Church, a Christian custom commemorating the Last Supper and the Easter mass.
Sarantos Agapinos, born in 1881, was a Lieutenant of the Greek Army and Chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle, known by the nom de guerre Kapetan Agras. He operated in the area of Giannitsa and he was hanged in 1907.
It was a renowned town in Thrace, built on the coast of the Black Sea. In ancient times, it was called “Aulaion or Aulaiouteichos”. Its citizens were forced to flee to Greece in 1912, during the First Balkan War.
Plutarch (around 50-around 120 A.D.) was an author and teacher of philosophy. He was assigned with political and religious duties. His most famous works were Parallel Lives a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.
Georgios Lassanis was born in 1793 in Kozani and died in 1870 in Athens. He was a member of the Holy Squadron and aide to Alexandros Ypsilantis. He held several military and administrative posts. He left remarkable literary work and he donated his property to charity.
Vogatsiko is a village in the Prefecture of Kastoria and its citizens participated in the Greek Revolution of 1821. It was the centre of the Macedonian Struggle and it is the birthplace of the Dragoumi family.
The Komnenoi family was a powerful noble family from Komne of Thrace. Members of the Komnenoi family became Emperors of Constantinople (1081-1185) and Trebizond (1204-1261).
Frenchman Charles Diehl was born in 1859 and died in 1944. He was a professor at Sorbonne, member of the French Archaeological School of Athens and an eminent byzantinist. He restored (1900-1909) the church of Hagia Sophia in Thessaloniki, that has suffered severe damage during the fire of 1890.
