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26-MAY-2015

Young Hero

Nafpaktos, West Greece, Greece view map

Bronze statue of Giorgos Anemoyiannis on top of the fortress. During the Greek War for Independence, his suicide mission to burn the Ottoman warships in the Nafpaktos harbor ended in failure in May 1821. He was tortured to death by the Turks.


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