1. Leonidas and his 300 warriors
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Leonidas and his 300 warriors
(540 B.C. – 480 B.C.)
One of the top Greek historical figures who exclaimed
the renowned “Come and get it” -“Molon Lave” to the
Persians and their leader Xerxis and died fighting with
all their strength.

2. 10 Greek Heroes (356 B.C.- 323 B.C.) Alexander the Great
Perhaps the most famous of all the Greeks.
His bravery and special abilities helped him in
his war expeditions, making Greece one of the
greatest lands on Earth.
Alexander the Great had a life dream…to stengthen
and extend Greek sovereignty. He was a master
of the art of war and had a special ability to make
everybody respect him and his warriors. He died
very young away from his country.

3. Souliotisses-Naousaies
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Souliotisses-Naousaies
(1803 and 1822)
The women from Souli (Souliotisses) and
Naousa showed great bravery when they
threw themselves – along with their babies-
from rocks and were killed instead of giving
themselves up to the Turks in 1821.

4. Kostas Koukidis 10 Greek Heroes (1941)
A brave evzone who wrapped himself
in the Greek flag and fell from the rock
of the Acropolis when the German invaders
asked him to raise the German flag.
Kostas Koukidis was raised in our hometown,
Gastouni and a monument to his honour has
been  built in Gastouni.

5. 10 Greek Heroes (1883-1962) G. Papanikolaou
A famous Greek doctor who - after
experimenting on his own wife - discovered
and worked on the gynaecological test for
the cancer of the utterus.

6. The students of the Polytechnio School
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The students of the Polytechnio School
(1973)
The students of the Polytechnio School
who rose up first against the Dictatorship
in 1973 and rallied citizens round them,
making the first step to Freedom and
Democracy.
A good number of Greek people were
killed or arrested and tortured those days.

7. Greek National Basketball Team
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Greek National Basketball Team
(1997)
The Greek National Basketball team
played in the European championship in 1987,
against giant teams such as the Soviet Union
and won the first prize. This inspired many
young men to deal with the sport and among
them a famous young man Giannis Antetokoumpo.

8. Kostas Iliakis 10 Greek Heroes (2006)
Kostas Iliakis was a brave pilot of military
aircrafts and was killed during an identifying
flight above the Aegean Sea in A turkish
aircraft sent a missile when captain Iliakis
refused to leave the scene of his mission and
his plane exploded and fell near the island of
Karpathos. He is still honoured by the islanders
as a hero.

9. The Smile of the Child 10 Greek Heroes (1995)
“The Smile of the Child” is the realization of
the dream that little Andreas Giannopoulos
had just before he died from cancer. A
voluntary organization that covers all needs
of kids-orphans, maltreated, abandoned,
poor- and also supports all their accommodation,
education and medical demands.

10. Greek Islanders and the three grandmothers
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Greek Islanders and the three grandmothers
(2016)
Three very old women from an Aegean
island were nominated for the Nobel
Prize of peace in 2016, because they
(along with most islanders) fed and
supported all baby and young refugees
that found shelter on their island.