Ligopsa Monument

Ligopsa Monument

Epirus, Greece

Twentieth Century

This stele memorial set on four marble steps is enclosed in a garden space at the outskirts of the village of Ligopsa. The inscribed stele lists the names of men who died for their country from 1908 - 1955. A cannonball sits on the top of the stele.

ΕΙΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΝ ΤΩΝ ΥΠΕΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ ΠΕΣΟΝΤΕΣ\ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΗΛ. ΛΑΛΟΣ\1908\ΚΩΝ[ΣΤΑΝΤΙ]ΝΟΣ Ι. ΧΑΝΤΖΙΑΡΑΣ\1913\ΗΛΙΑΣ ΔΗΜ. ΔΗΜΟΣ\ΑΠΟΣ. ΚΟΣ. ΤΣΙΓΚΑΣ/ ΒΑΣΙΛ. ΑΝ. ΜΠΑΙΜΑΚΑΣ/ ΓΕΩΡ. ΚΩΝ. ΤΣΕΚΑΣ/ ΔΗΜ. ΚΩΝ ΜΑΝΤΖΙΚΑΣ\ 1921\ ΠΑΝΑΓ. ΑΠ. ΧΑΡΙΣΗΣ\1940\ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ Ν. ΤΖΙΚΗΣ\1948\ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ Γ. ΔΗΜΟΣ\1949\ ΑΝΑΣΤ. Κ. ΚΛΙΤΣΑΣ\1951\ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΑΡ. ΚΥΡΙΟΥ\1955\ΓΕΩΡ. Δ. ΚΟΝΤΟΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ\1947 ; In memory of those who fell on behalf of the fatherland: Ioannis Elias Lalos, 1908; Konstantinos I. Chadziaras, 1913; Elias Dimitrios Dimos, Apostalis Kostas Tsingas, Vasileios An. Baimakas, Georgios Konstantinos Tsekas, Dimitrios Konstantinos Madzikas, 1921; Panagiotis Apostalis Charisis, 1940; Ioannis N. Tsikis, 1948; Theodoros G. Dimos, 1949; Anastasios K. Klitsas, 1951; Ioannis Ap. Kyriou, 1955; Georgios D. Kontogiannis, 1947.

unknown (sculptor) ; unknown (sponsor)

1908-1955 (Date of Event) ; unknown (Date of Construction)

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Ligopsá, Ioánnina, Epirus, Greece

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