July 15, 2021
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Thank you, Helene. Thanks for having me on. It’s really exciting to have so many elected local officials online today. I’m also especially glad that we’ve got a strong California contingent, including a couple of folks from Santa Barbara, which is really truly one of my favorite cities in the whole world and part of the United States and my home state. It reminds me an awful lot of the climate and everything else here in Athens, Greece.
You will also be glad to know we have a really strong California contingent here at the U.S. Embassy in Greece. Our Consul General In Thessaloniki is from San Francisco. And fortuitously, Thessaloniki’s sister city, or one of its sister cities in the U.S., is San Francisco. Liz Lee, our Consul General, had the opportunity to visit with Mayor London Breed when she was back at home last month and we’re very excited about the fact that we may get Mayor Breed to come to Thessaloniki later this year or next. And then
Ambassador Pyatt s Remarks at Hydra Workshop in Honor of American Philhellenes Melina Merkouri Conference Room, Hydra
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Ambassador Pyatt s Remarks at Hydra Street Naming Ceremony in Honor of American Philhellenes William Washington and George Jarvis
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Archon Presentation Reveals American Connection to the Greek War for Independence
At St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church in Boca Raton, Florida on March 24, 2021, Archon Dr. Stamatios Kartalopoulos offered a presentation entitled “1821 and Its American Connection,” shedding light on numerous little-known aspects of the Greeks’ struggle to regain their freedom two centuries ago.
Dr. Kartalopoulos, an emeritus Chaired professor of the University of Oklahoma, explained that when the Greeks revolted after almost four centuries of Ottoman oppression, “they had no military training, and no organization. They had no military equipment, and no battleships. They were against a mega-empire that had hundreds of thousands of armed soldiers, and a navy equipped with modern guns.”