Word: missolonghi
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Tourists in Athens have found the memory of Lord Byron celebrated nightly in "The Byron Bar," just a block from the Great Britain Hotel. On April 19, 1924, centenary of the death at Missolonghi*of Byron, most famous of the champions of the cause of Greek freedom during their eight years' revolution against the Turks, will be more decorously celebrated throughout Greece...
...Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe...