FTHIOTIDA - CENTRAL GREECE, AUG.-SEPT. 2018 #1068A ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑ, ΑΥΓ.-ΣΕΠΤ. 2018
Photo taken on September 1, 2018, during a 3 day photographic trip to the Prefecture of FTHIOTIDA - ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑ central Greece with my wife Theresa Jane Brown.
YPATI - ΥΠΑΤΗ
Ypati is a town about 30 km west of Thermopylae and north of the Oeta mountains which was founded in the late 5th/early 4th century BC.
During the Axis occupation 15 inhabitants were shot as reprisals for the Gorgopotamos bridge sabotage in 1942, and later, on 17 June 1944, the Germans surrounded the town as part of reprisals for attacks by EAM-ELAS partisans based in the region. They executed 28 people, wounded another 30, and burned down 375 out of the town's 400 buildings. A memorial in the town centre commemorates the event and Ypati has been declared a "martyr city" by the Greek state.
Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανάσης Φουρναράκος
Professional Photographer, Athens, Greece
(retired in 2011, born in 1946).
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None of my images may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, manipulated or used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. THANK YOU!
FTHIOTIDA - CENTRAL GREECE, AUG.-SEPT. 2018 #1068A ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑ, ΑΥΓ.-ΣΕΠΤ. 2018
Photo taken on September 1, 2018, during a 3 day photographic trip to the Prefecture of FTHIOTIDA - ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑ central Greece with my wife Theresa Jane Brown.
YPATI - ΥΠΑΤΗ
Ypati is a town about 30 km west of Thermopylae and north of the Oeta mountains which was founded in the late 5th/early 4th century BC.
During the Axis occupation 15 inhabitants were shot as reprisals for the Gorgopotamos bridge sabotage in 1942, and later, on 17 June 1944, the Germans surrounded the town as part of reprisals for attacks by EAM-ELAS partisans based in the region. They executed 28 people, wounded another 30, and burned down 375 out of the town's 400 buildings. A memorial in the town centre commemorates the event and Ypati has been declared a "martyr city" by the Greek state.
Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανάσης Φουρναράκος
Professional Photographer, Athens, Greece
(retired in 2011, born in 1946).
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
None of my images may be downloaded, copied, reproduced, manipulated or used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit written permission. THANK YOU!