Eleuthero Monument 1943

Title

Eleuthero Monument 1943

Description

A stone-built stele with an inset marble plaque, set on a stepped platform. The monument is situated on a ridge approached by a rustic staircase. Its position commands a view of the Pindus mountains and upland valley in which the village of Eleuthero is located. There is a storyboard for the incident marking the steps up to the monument. The monument is a concrete. stone-faced platform with a horizontal cross shaped from concrete on which this is a hand-written inscription commemorating the death of an ephebe, 14 years old on November 10, 1940. On the platform the marble plaque on the stone-faced stele bears the names of villagers fallen in two different battles: November 8, 1940 and July 26, 1943.
ΜΝΗΜΕΙΟ ΠΕΣΟΝΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΤΕΛΕΣΘΕΝΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΙΤΑΛΟΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΗ ΕΙΣΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΟ ΧΩΡΙΟ ΜΑΣ.\8-11-1940. ΑΝΘΛΓΟΣ: ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΠΑΥΛΙΔΗΣ/ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ: ΔΑΛΛΑΣ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ.\26-7-1943\ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ:ΓΙΩΤΟΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ\": ΜΠΟΓΔΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΣ\":ΜΠΟΓΔΟΥ ΜΑΡΙΑ\ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟΣ\":ΠΛΑΤΗΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ\": ΠΛΑΤΗΣ ΗΛΙΑΣ ; Memorial of the ones fallen and executed in the ItaloGermanic assault on our village, November 8, 1940: second lieutenant Paulos Paulidis, citizen Nikolaos Dallas; July 26, 1943: citizen Ioannis Giotos, citizen Basileios Bogdos, citizen Maria Bogdos-Oikonomou Charalambos, citizen Demetrios Plates and Ilias Plates.

Creator

unknown (sculptor) ; Agios Minas brotherhood of Eleuthero, city of Konitsa (sponsor)

Date

November 8, 1940-July 26, 1943 (Date of Event) ; August 6, 2002 (Date of Construction)

Rights

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Format

stone (rock)
engraving (action)

Identifier

epirus_eleuthero_monument_1943

Coverage

Eleuthero
40.57377
20.847601

Files

Eleuthero Monument 1943 front.JPG
Eleuthero Monument 1943 cross detail.JPG
Eleuthero Monument 1943 dedication.jpg
Eleuthero Monument 1943 inscription.JPG
Eleuthero Monument 1943 path.JPG
Eleuthero Monument 1943 roadside storyboard.jpg
Eleuthero Monument 1943 road sign.JPG
Eleuthero Monument 1943 side.JPG

Citation

unknown (sculptor) ; Agios Minas brotherhood of Eleuthero, city of Konitsa (sponsor), “Eleuthero Monument 1943,” Hollins University Library Digital Exhibits, accessed September 30, 2023, https://digitalexhibits.hollins.edu/items/show/16.

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