Ταξίδι στον Άη Στράτη 25-27 Μαΐου 2018 | Journey to the island Agios Efstratios 25-27 May 2018
Ταξίδι στον Άγιο Ευστράτιο (Άη Στράτης) νησί πατρίδα του παππού Δημητρού Βέργου και της γιαγιάς Μάλαμα Βέργου (γένος Μυτήλια).
Παρασκευή 25 μέχρι και Κυριακή 27 Μαΐου 2018
Δημήτρης Γ. Βέργος
ξάδερφος Κωνσταντίνου Στ. Πανέρα
Οικογένειες Πανέρα υπάρχουν ακόμα αρκετές στο νησί.
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Journey to the island of Aghios Eftratios (Ai Strati = San Strati)
Photos, videos, presentation, comments by Dimitris G. Vergos
Dimitris is first cousin of Constantinos St. Paneras.
There are a lot of cousins of Paneras families in the island.
Ταξίδι στον Άη Στράτη 25-27 Μαΐου 2018 | Journey to the island Agios Efstratios 25-27 May 2018
Ταξίδι στον Άγιο Ευστράτιο (Άη Στράτης) νησί πατρίδα του παππού Δημητρού Βέργου και της γιαγιάς Μάλαμα Βέργου (γένος Μυτήλια).
Παρασκευή 25 μέχρι και Κυριακή 27 Μαΐου 2018
Δημήτρης Γ. Βέργος
ξάδερφος Κωνσταντίνου Στ. Πανέρα
Οικογένειες Πανέρα υπάρχουν ακόμα αρκετές στο νησί.
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Journey to the island of Aghios Eftratios (Ai Strati = San Strati)
Photos, videos, presentation, comments by Dimitris G. Vergos
Dimitris is first cousin of Constantinos St. Paneras.
There are a lot of cousins of Paneras families in the island.
Thorikto Averof
Ten years after the Greek -- Turkish War of 1897, the Hellenic Navy had only antiquated torpedo -- ships and three battleships, manufactured in 1889.
The need to create an effective fleet resulted at the end of 1908 in its reinforcement. Four brand new English and four German destroyers (torpedo -- ships) were aquired. In adittion, the Battleship G. Averoff, the pride of the Hellenic Navy, joined the fleet.
For the resuscitation of the fleet, the re-elected government of Mavromichalis approached the Orlando Shipyards, at Livorno, Italy, where at the time, a battleship was under construction. It had been ordered and then cancelled by the Italian Navy. The Greeks offered to advance one third of its total cost and thus ,secured the acquisition of the battleship. The amount given in advance came from George Averoff' s will and the rest of the cost was covered by a loan from abroad. George Averoff had been a wealthy Greek patriot and benefactor.He had willed funds for the Greek Navy to acquire a training ship for the Greek Naval Academy.
The 10.200 tn, steel plated warship had Italian engines of 19.000 hp, 22 French boilers, German generators and English Armstrong type cannons of 190 and 234 millimeters. Its top speed was 23 knots. G. Averoff was launched on the 27 th February 1910. It arrived at Faliro Bay on the 1 st of September 1911, where the Greeks welcomed it with enthusiasm.
The battleship, with the beginning of the First Balkan War in October of 1912, was at the head of the Aegean Fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral Paylos Kontouriotis and set sail to Dardanelles. It took over Limnos where the anchorage of the fleet was established in Moudros bay. After that, the liberation of Aghio Oros and the East and North Aegean islands (Thasos, Samothraki, Tenedos, Aghios Eustratios, Mitilini, Chios) took place .
An engagement with the Turkish fleet was inevitable. Rear Admiral Kountouriotis' plan favoured a battle offensive. On December 3th 1912 , he ordered the fleet to sail towards the Ottoman fleet that had made its appearance at the exit of the Dardanelles. Kountouriotis dispatched his famous signal to the Greek ships which were led by G. Averoff. By the power of God and the wishes of our King and in the name of justice, I sail towards the victory against the enemy of the Nation.
The successful result of the battles of Elli and Limnos that followed, discouraged the Sultan and the Sublime Porte's expectations of controlling the Aegean Sea. The Ottoman Fleet would never attempt another exit to the Aegean.
Greece remained neutral during most of World War I. The Eleutherios Venizelos government in 1917 decided to participate on the Allies' side. At the end of the first World War in November 1918 -- Turkey capitulated (Moudros truce) and Greece was on the winners' side. G.Averoff sailed to Constantinople and raised the Greek flag as one of the winning powers of the Great War. After, the signing of the peace treaties, G.Averoff with the rest of the fleet moved the Greek troops to Asia Minor..
In 1941 after the start of World War II, the Greek fleet had moved to Alexandria with G.Averoff at the lead. From Alexandria, the battleship was dispatched to Bombay to patrol the Indian Ocean. At the end of the war 'G.Averoff anchored with the rest of the fleet at Faliro (17 Oct.1944) having brought back the Greek government from its exile in Cairo.
In 1952'G. Averoff' was decommissioned. From 1956 until 1983, the battleship was moved to Poros. In 1984, the Navy decided to restore it as a museum. Thirty years after being set aside, the battleship was on a new course. The ship was moved from Poros to its present location at P.Faliro, where the restoration took place.
The cost for the stabilization and the restoration from 1985 until today is vety large. A large percentage of it comes from donations, the most important of which are those of the Cyprus Democracy, the Latsis family and the Onasis foundation.
Today the G. Averoff battleship museum honors those who served and died during its time of active service. It also keeps alive a sense of the Greek Navy's heritage. The battleship serves its educational purposes by hosting day visits from schools, institutions, organizations and private individuals. Those visits fulfil the second part of the donors' , George Averoff's, vision who wished the ship to fulfill an educational purpose.
Lesbos | Wikipedia audio article
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Lesbos
00:02:14 1 History
00:07:32 2 Landmarks and architecture
00:08:36 3 Endangered sites
00:09:48 4 Geography
00:11:01 4.1 Climate
00:11:33 4.2 Lesvos Geopark
00:12:56 5 Administration
00:13:56 6 Economy
00:14:30 6.1 Media
00:14:45 7 Tourism
00:14:53 7.1 LGBT tourism
00:15:55 8 Cuisine
00:16:23 9 Sports
00:16:38 10 Notable residents
00:19:23 11 Gallery
00:19:32 12 See also
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Lesbos (, US: ; Greek: Λέσβος Lesvos, pronounced [ˈlezvos]) is an island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1,633 km2 (631 sq mi) with 320 kilometres (199 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece. It is separated from Turkey by the narrow Mytilini Strait and in late Palaeolithic/Mesolithic times was joined to the Anatolian mainland before the end of the last glacial period.
Lesbos is also the name of a regional unit of the North Aegean region, within which Lesbos island is one of five governing islands. The others are Chios, Ikaria, Lemnos, and Samos. The North Aegean region governs nine inhabited islands: Lesbos, Chios, Psara, Oinousses, Ikaria, Fournoi Korseon, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios and Samos. The capital of the North Aegean Region is Mytilene. The population of Lesbos is approximately 86,000, a third of whom live in its capital, Mytilene, in the southeastern part of the island. The remaining population is distributed in small towns and villages. The largest are Plomari, Kalloni, the Gera Villages, Agiassos, Eresos, and Molyvos (the ancient Mythimna).
According to later Greek writers, Mytilene was founded in the 11th century BC by the family Penthilidae, who arrived from Thessaly, and ruled the city-state until a popular revolt (590–580 BC) led by Pittacus of Mytilene ended their rule. In fact the archaeological and linguistic record may indicate a late Iron Age arrival of Greek settlers although references in Late Bronze Age Hittite archives indicate a likely Greek presence then. The name Mytilene itself seems to be of Hittite origin. According to Homer's Iliad, Lesbos was part of the kingdom of Priam, which was based in Anatolia (present day Turkey). Much work remains to be done to determine just what happened and when. In the Middle Ages, it was under Byzantine and then Genoese rule. Lesbos was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1462. The Ottomans then ruled the island until the First Balkan War in 1912, when it became part of the Kingdom of Greece.