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@diokaminaris present the ORIGINAL SHOT (VIDEO) of March 23, 2024
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The liberation of Kalamata (March 23, 1821) was one of the first episodes of the Revolution of 1821. After a ruse by the Greek revolutionaries, the Turks surrendered the city to them without offering any resistance. Petrobeis Mavromichalis during the uprising in Messinia.
From the afternoon of March 22 until the dawn of the following day, 2,000 armed men of “Western Sparta” took up positions on the heights around Kalamata.
On March 23, Dimitrios Papatsonis arrived in Kalamata with a body of more than a thousand Messinian fighters, including the great commanders Mitros Petrovas and Panagiotis Kefalas, where he joined the Maniates of Petrobeis Mavromichalis and the bodies of Papaflessas, Anagnostaras and Nikitaras , completing the blockade of the city.
Then only the commander Arnautoglu understood the trap but, blocked as he was, he could no longer escape to Tripolitsa (note Tripoli). He then decided to gather the Turks in the houses of the city that offered themselves for defense.
At noon, 24 priests and hieromonks, after a moving eulogy, blessed the Greek flags and swore the revolutionaries. This ceremony took place on the banks of Nedona, in a festive atmosphere, while the bells and the triumphant shouts of the Greeks could be heard. There, near the Byzantine church of the Holy Apostles (according to the prevailing opinion), 24 priests and hieromonks gathered (Metropolitan Chrysanthos Pagonis was a prisoner in Tripolitsa) wearing priestly vestments and holy icons, blessed the revolutionary flags and sent prayers in favor of the struggle . Petrobeis, took an oath that he will fight until the end for the freedom of the homeland. All the warriors also swore, raising their hands.
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📍Kalamáta, Peloponnesus
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