Messolonghi

Messolonghi is a Greek city. It is the capital of the Aitoloakarnania prefecture. It is build on the bank of a lagoon. Its population is 14,209 inhabitants. Messolonghi is known because of the Greek War of Independence. During that time the siege of Messolonghi took place. During the siege the residents of Messolonghi fought with the Turks and the majority of them were killed there. During the siege of Messolonghi Lord Byron died, in 1824.

Messolonghi Media

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  Title page of Ellinika Chronika (1824), one of the first newspapers in modern Greece, published in Missolonghi under the editorship of Swiss Philhellene Johann Jakob Meyer, who was killed during the sortie.

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  The Attack of Ibrahim Pasha against Messolonghi by Giuseppe Mazzola

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  The Sortie of Missolonghi by Theodoros Vryzakis (1855)

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  The lagoon of Messolonghi, Aitoloakarnania, Greece

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  View of the Garden of Heroes

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  The messologi station building