Word: kalavryta
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...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
...mayor, Petrds Georgacopoulis, was more receptive. At the visitors' request, he summoned the village leaders to Kalavryta's new hotel to listen to the man and woman. While this meeting was going on, black-dressed women gathered in the lobby. They said and did nothing, but the bitterness in their eyes told a story...
Under the Cross. One day late in 1943, Communist-led guerrillas of the ELAS captured 80 German soldiers in a brief battle with Nazi occupying troops near Kalavryta. They fled into the hills, pausing only to leave behind three seriously wounded Germans. The Greek doctor in the village hospital treated the wounded men. and the townspeople saw to it that they were fed and made comfortable. Later the ELAS swooped in again, and made off with the wounded prisoners. Close to the village, the guerrillas killed the three, mutilated their bodies, and threw them into a deep well. The villagers...
Recently the Greek government deposited in Kalavryta's bank 230 million drachmas (about $250,000). Also in the town was a heavy shipment of U.S. food parcels. The Communist guerrillas, from their spies, heard about this loot...
...weeks ago 800 guerrillas attacked. Kalavryta's garrison-35 gendarmes and 200 newly mobilized national guards-resisted stoutly at first, but when ammunition ran short the gendarmes staged a sortie and got away. The guards' commander stood his ground, finally ended his life with his last bullet. Sixty-two defenders had been killed or wounded. The others surrendered and disappeared...