History. Kalavryta is built near the ancient city of Cynaetha. During the late Middle Ages, the town was the centre of the Barony of Kalavryta within the Frankish Principality of Achaea, until it was reconquered by the Byzantines in the 1270s.
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The Kalavryta massacre or the Holocaust of Kalavryta was the near-extermination of the male population and the total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, ...
Known initially as Kynaetha, Kalavryta was recorded in history for the first time in 776 B.C with the name Kynaetha, showing the love of the inhabitants for ...
Dec 13, 2023 · December 13, 1943 marks the date of the worst massacre committed in Greece by the Nazis occupying the country, as more than five hundred ...
On December 5th, 1943 the plan was put into practice. Fully armed motor-driven and hiker forces started from five different Peloponnese cities (Patras- ...
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An insight into its recent history: in 1943, the German occupying troops murdered 1500 male locals above the age of 14 and turned the town into ashes in ...
The Kalavryta Holocaust: One of the darkest days in modern Greek history
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Dec 13, 2020 · The gruesome massacre of innocent Greek people in Kalavryta occurred in 1943, at the time where the Axis had Greece occupied (April 1941-October ...
The German Operation Kalavryta started in October 1943, when the Greek resistant forces won the Nazi troops in a battle near Kerpini village and 80 German ...
Kalavrita is a symbol of the nation's struggles for freedom, and has been imprinted in the National memory as the place that encapsulates the structural ...
Nov 3, 2021 · The film recounts the brutal massacre of some 700 Greek males by German troops in the Peloponnesian village of Kalavryta ... The Association of ...