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Germanos III of Old Patras (1771–1826)Monastery Agia Lavra, Germanos blessing the flag. Painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865
Germanos III of Old Patras (Greek: Παλαιών Πατρών Γερμανός Γʹ; 1771–1826), born Georgios Kontzias (Γεώργιος Κοντζιᾶς), was an Orthodox Metropolitan of Patras. He played an important role in the Greek Revolution of 1821, having diplomatic and political activity.
Germanos was born in Dimitsana, northwestern Arcadia, Peloponnese. Before his consecration as Metropolitan of Patras by Patriarch Gregory V, he had served as a priest and protosyncellus in Smyrna.
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Patras (Greek: Πάτρα, romanized: Pátra pronounced [ˈpatra] ; Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Πάτραι; Latin: Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and...
GermanosofPatras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the...
dominates in the central square and also the family houses of both him and GermanosIIIofOldPatras can be seen. Dimitsana's Library contains today about...
of Freedom", p. 59. Frazee, The Orthodox Church and Independent Greece, p. 19, who also cites (footnote 3) GermanosofOldPatras, Recollections of the...
and Byron's publisher refused to continue to publish the work. In Canto IIIof Don Juan, Byron expresses his detestation for poets such as William Wordsworth...
Bishop GermanosofoldPatras blesses the Greek banner at the outset of the national revolt against the Ottomans on 25 March 1821. The solemnity of the scene...
monument ofGermanosIIIofOldPatras sculpted by Ioannis Kossos as well as a number of restaurants. The area is densely populated with numerous blocks of flats...
Greeks of 1821, or the main Personalities of Greece]" (in Greek). Τυπογραφείον Α. Σ. Αγαπητού, Εν Πάτραις [A.S. Agapitos' printing house, in Patras]. pp...
democratic nature of the revolutionary regime prior to the establishment of the independent Kingdom of Greece, and associate this period of Greek history...
bishop, whose form is a variation of the GermanosIIIofOldPatrasof Peter von Hess. The naive dimension and the folklore of the style and the patterns in...
Grèce, 2nd edition, Paris, 1825, volume III. Page 532. The Star, 19 May and 6 July 1822. (See The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue,...
established. The 1st Evzone Battalion at Kravasaras was subordinated to the Patras Brigade, and the 2nd Evzone Battalion at Karpenisi to the Corfu Brigade...
Kolokotronis – University ofPatras Archived 15 August 2002 at the Wayback Machine (in Greek) Hellenic Parliament: The Speech of Kolokotronis at Pnyx (in...
conducted more in the old Asiatic style than his later operations. The campaign lasted two years, and ended in the destruction of the House of Saud as a political...
offensive at the entrance of the strategically vital Gulf of Corinth. Church's army laid siege to the Ottoman-held port ofPatras, while Cochrane organised...
Ecumenical Patriarch upon the resignation of Gerasimus III. At the onset of the Greek War of Independence, as Ethnarch of the Orthodox Millet Gregory V was blamed...
Romania) and agents of brutal, opportunistic change (as in Mihai Eminescu's Scrisoarea a III-a). Here is a non-exhaustive list of Phanariot families:...
Greeks of 1821, or the main Personalities of Greece]" (in Greek). Τυπογραφείον Α. Σ. Αγαπητού, Εν Πάτραις [A.S. Agapitos' printing house, in Patras]. pp...
Clauren, German author (d. 1854) March 25 – GermanosIIIofOldPatras, Greek Metropolitan Bishop ofPatras (d. 1826) April 3 – Hans Nielsen Hauge, Norwegian...
fortresses of Methoni and Koroni, thus preventing their surrender to the Greeks who were besieging them. From there the fleet moved to Patras, where it...
actually at Patras. What he should have done was to have fallen back immediately to Corinth, from where he could have drawn supplies from Patras. Instead...
member of the National Assembly of Argos and member of the Provisional Government. Along with Georgios Mavromichalis and GermanosIIIofOldPatras, he was...
steal". After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and then the fall of Mistra in the Despotate of the Morea, most of the plains of present-day Greece fell...
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