March 25 is both a national (revolution against the barbarian Turks) and religious holiday (Annunciation nameday for Vangelis or Evangelos and Evangelia or Eva).
There is a school flag parade in every town and village and a big armed forces of the country parade in Greece this day !
History
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The Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks in 1453 and the Greeks remained under the Ottoman rule for nearly 400 years. During this time their language (Greek Language), their religion (Christianity) and their sense of identity (roots based in Ancient Greek art, Literature, Music and Byzantine Culture) remained strong. The result was to be influenced the illiterate Turks of that era. On March 25, 1821 the bishop Germanos of Patras raised the Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra in Peloponnese and one more revolution started against the Turks. The Greeks shouted "Freedom or Death" and they fought the War of Independence for 9 years (1821-1829) until a small part of modern Greece was finally liberated and it was declared the independent Greek nation. At the end of April 1825, Ibrahim Pascha began the siege of Messolongi. Finally, in the night of the 10th to 11th of April 1826 the defenders of the town, which were worn out by the twelve-month siege and the lack of food, attempted a desperate and at the same time heroic exodus. The struggle for the liberation of all the lands inhabited by Greeks, in 1864 the Ionian islands and in 1881 the parts of Thessaly and Epirus.
Crete was liberated in 1897 and
Crete was liberated in 1897 and
On December 1, 1913 the Union of Crete was achieved with Greece. The islands of the Eastern Aegean and Macedonia were added in 1913 and Western Thrace in 1919.
Greek fighters
*Important Heroes-Fighters of the Greek Independence War are: Odysseas Androutsos, Gregorios Dikaios, Constantinos Kanaris, Αntonios Kriezis, Georgios Karaiskakis, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Dimitrios Makris, Makriyannis, Nikitaras, Papaflessas, Iakovos Tombazis, Andreas Vokos Miaoulis and many other revolutioners. Female fighters are: Laskarina Boumboulina, Manto Mavrogenous and other leaders of the administration.
As commanders:
Markos Botsaris
Alexandros Ypsilantis
Demetrios Ypsilantis
Konstantinos Kanaris
Georgios Karaiskakis
Theodoros Kolokotronis
Yiannis Makriyannis
Alexandros Mavrocordatos
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis
Φιλική Εταιρία {Filiki Eteria} Society of Friends
The Greek organisation - society and the revolutioners:
Miltiadis Agathonikos, Anagnostaras, Panayiotis Anagnostopoulos, Aristeidis Pappas, Dimitris and Agamemnon and Georgios Avgerinos, Charalampos Vilaetis, Spiridon Valetas, Dionisis Veletzas, Emmanouil Vernardos, Toudor Vladimirescu, Ioannis Vlasopoulos, Theodoritos Vresthenis, Anthimos Gazis, Nikolaos Galatis, Paleon Patron Germanos, Theodorakis Deligiannis, Marcos Dragoumis, Drosos, Georgios Evaggelidis, Andreas Zaimis, Yiannis Zabelios, Panagos Zarkos, Dimitrios Themelis, Zafirakis Theodosiou, Sotiris Theocharopoulos, Theofilaktos Thiseus, Dimitrios Ipatros, Rogon Ioseph, Vasilis and Eugenios Karavias, Thanasis Karpenisiotis, Nikolaos Kasomoulis, Dimitris Kokkaliotis, Antonios Komitzopoulos, Athanasios Kotzias, Arsenios Krestas, Lykoyrgos Kresenitis, Georgios kyriakopoylos, konstantios Maronias, Grigorios Konstantas, Ionas Konstantinidis, Ioannis Kostas, Georgios Lasanis, Georgios Leventis, Athanasios Lidorikis, Dimitrios Makris, Fillipos Margaritis, Anastasios and Georgios Mavromichalis, Petrompeis Mavromichalis, Meletis Vasiliou, Meletios Meletopoulos, Chatzigiannis Mexis, Nikiforos Pampoukis, Georgios Mpilidas, Athanasios Mpimpas, Lampros Nakos, Panayiotis Naoum, Georgios Nioplios, Nikolaos Yiatzis, Stavros Nikolaou, Emmanouil Xanthos, Georgakis Olympios, Chatzilias Ikonomou, Grigorios Paikos, Christos Balaskas, Dimitrios Panouryias, Gregorios Papatheodoroy, Ioannis Papareskas, Ikonomos Papatsoris, Emmanouel Pappas, Dionysios Pardalos, Antonios and Konstantinos Pelopidas, Ioannis Theodosiou, Konstantinos and Nikolaos Pentimezas, Eustratios Pissas, Alexandros Pouskin, Iakovos Rizos Ragavis, Georgios Rousiadis, Benizelos Roufos, Panayiotis Sekeris, Giorgos Sisinis, Ioannis Skandalidis, Nikolaos Skoyfas, Petros Omiridis, Anagnostis Spiliotakis, Staikos Staikopoulos, Konstantinos Tatis, Theodoros Tzinis, Iakovos Tobazis, Ioannis Trikoupis, Athanasios Tsakalof, Ioannis Farmakis, Olenis Filaretos, Ioannis Fillimon, Daniel Philippidis, Ioannis Filon and Amvrosios Fratzis.
Greek War of Independence was the first initial stimulation for the liberty of the Balkan peninsula from barbarian Turks and many countries should be grateful to Greeks for release them from the barbarity that dominated them.
Greek fighters
*Important Heroes-Fighters of the Greek Independence War are: Odysseas Androutsos, Gregorios Dikaios, Constantinos Kanaris, Αntonios Kriezis, Georgios Karaiskakis, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Dimitrios Makris, Makriyannis, Nikitaras, Papaflessas, Iakovos Tombazis, Andreas Vokos Miaoulis and many other revolutioners. Female fighters are: Laskarina Boumboulina, Manto Mavrogenous and other leaders of the administration.
As commanders:
Markos Botsaris
Alexandros Ypsilantis
Demetrios Ypsilantis
Konstantinos Kanaris
Georgios Karaiskakis
Theodoros Kolokotronis
Yiannis Makriyannis
Alexandros Mavrocordatos
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis
Φιλική Εταιρία {Filiki Eteria} Society of Friends
The Greek organisation - society and the revolutioners:
Miltiadis Agathonikos, Anagnostaras, Panayiotis Anagnostopoulos, Aristeidis Pappas, Dimitris and Agamemnon and Georgios Avgerinos, Charalampos Vilaetis, Spiridon Valetas, Dionisis Veletzas, Emmanouil Vernardos, Toudor Vladimirescu, Ioannis Vlasopoulos, Theodoritos Vresthenis, Anthimos Gazis, Nikolaos Galatis, Paleon Patron Germanos, Theodorakis Deligiannis, Marcos Dragoumis, Drosos, Georgios Evaggelidis, Andreas Zaimis, Yiannis Zabelios, Panagos Zarkos, Dimitrios Themelis, Zafirakis Theodosiou, Sotiris Theocharopoulos, Theofilaktos Thiseus, Dimitrios Ipatros, Rogon Ioseph, Vasilis and Eugenios Karavias, Thanasis Karpenisiotis, Nikolaos Kasomoulis, Dimitris Kokkaliotis, Antonios Komitzopoulos, Athanasios Kotzias, Arsenios Krestas, Lykoyrgos Kresenitis, Georgios kyriakopoylos, konstantios Maronias, Grigorios Konstantas, Ionas Konstantinidis, Ioannis Kostas, Georgios Lasanis, Georgios Leventis, Athanasios Lidorikis, Dimitrios Makris, Fillipos Margaritis, Anastasios and Georgios Mavromichalis, Petrompeis Mavromichalis, Meletis Vasiliou, Meletios Meletopoulos, Chatzigiannis Mexis, Nikiforos Pampoukis, Georgios Mpilidas, Athanasios Mpimpas, Lampros Nakos, Panayiotis Naoum, Georgios Nioplios, Nikolaos Yiatzis, Stavros Nikolaou, Emmanouil Xanthos, Georgakis Olympios, Chatzilias Ikonomou, Grigorios Paikos, Christos Balaskas, Dimitrios Panouryias, Gregorios Papatheodoroy, Ioannis Papareskas, Ikonomos Papatsoris, Emmanouel Pappas, Dionysios Pardalos, Antonios and Konstantinos Pelopidas, Ioannis Theodosiou, Konstantinos and Nikolaos Pentimezas, Eustratios Pissas, Alexandros Pouskin, Iakovos Rizos Ragavis, Georgios Rousiadis, Benizelos Roufos, Panayiotis Sekeris, Giorgos Sisinis, Ioannis Skandalidis, Nikolaos Skoyfas, Petros Omiridis, Anagnostis Spiliotakis, Staikos Staikopoulos, Konstantinos Tatis, Theodoros Tzinis, Iakovos Tobazis, Ioannis Trikoupis, Athanasios Tsakalof, Ioannis Farmakis, Olenis Filaretos, Ioannis Fillimon, Daniel Philippidis, Ioannis Filon and Amvrosios Fratzis.
Greek War of Independence was the first initial stimulation for the liberty of the Balkan peninsula from barbarian Turks and many countries should be grateful to Greeks for release them from the barbarity that dominated them.
Processing the Flag
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------The national flag of Greece consists of nine horizontal indigenous stripes of equal width, five blue and four white alternately, the first and last stripes being blue!
In the upper left corner is a blue square containing a white cross, which occupies the first five stripes (Greek Sky and Blue Sea)!The Greek flag is hoisted on a white flagstaff at the top of which there is (on certain occasions) a white cross! The design and colours (blue and white) of the Greek national flag were established officially in January 1822 at the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. The nine lines of the flag reflects the number of syllables in the greek phrase Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος "Eleftheria i Thanatos" = Freedom or Death
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