Service at Axion Esti was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony. Photos: K. Deves
In attendance were also Greece’s Consul General in Melbourne Emmanuel Kakavelakis, Shadow Minister for Multicultural Affairs Neil Angus.
The 1821 rebellion in Halkidiki was mainly confined to the Kassandra and Mt Athos peninsulas. It was quickly squashed by the Ottomans with devastating repercussions to the local populations.
Nevertheless, the act of resistance is considered to have contributed to the overall Greek struggle for liberation by allowing rebel forces in the South to giana numerical advantage against the Ottomans, for the period they had troops deployed in the north.
16 May 2021 1:57pm
More than 100 years from the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus, yet the memory of lost homelands and the pain burn still in the hearts of the Pontian’s around the world.
Every year, the Greek community of Australia remembers the persecuted Christian populations of Pontus, Asia Minor and Eastern Thrace, paying tribute with a series of commemorative events organised by the coordinating committee of the Pontian Society of Melbourne.
Honouring the dark anniversary of 19 May, the day Mustafa Kemal Ataturk landed in Samsun back in 1919, a Commemorative Service took place at St Eustathios (221 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne) at 11am, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at 12.15pm at the Domain, between Birdwood Avenue and Government Drive.
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