Browsing by Author "Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959"

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    • The battle at the Barn at Liopetri 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959 (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      On 2 September 1958 at the Barn at Liopetri EOKA fought one of its most epic battles. The humble barn was dubbed “A New Inn at Gravid”. Regarding the four heroes of the battle, Andreas Karyos, Elias Papakyriakou, Photis ...

    • The EOKA hideout at 1955-59 at Palaichori 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959 (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      The personal hideout of EOKA hero Gregoris Afxentiou in Palaichori is situated in the heart of the village, next to the church of Panagia Chrysopantanassa, in the basement of the house of Andreas and Marititsa Karaolis. ...

    • Evagoras Pallikarides, A symbol of the struggle : Evagoras Pallikarides, Family Home - Museum, Tsada - Paphos 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959; Ministry of Education and Culture (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      Evagoras Pallikandes was born on 27 February 1938 in his mother's village of Tsada in the district of Paphos. His father was from the village of Larnaka tis Lapithou in the Kyrenia district Pallikarides was the fourth of ...

    • The holocaust at Kourdali 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959 (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      In the hard but proud years of the struggle for freedom of Cyprus, the small villages of Spilia and Kourdali were the scenes of two important events: • The first EOKA battle against the British on 11th December 1955, at ...

    • Imprisoned Graves 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959 (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      During the 1955-59 struggle for the liberation of Cyprus from the British yoke the colonial rulers constructed in the Nicosia Central Prisons a small cemetery which has gone down in history as the "Imprisoned Craves". It ...

    • Michalakis Parides 1933-1958 : Liberation Struggle of EOKA 1955-1959, Regional Museum at Vavla 

      Council of Historic Memory of the EOKA Struggle 1955-1959 (Press and Information Office, 2011-06-08)
      Parides was born at Anafotia in 1933 and went to the village primary school and then to Larnaca Commercial Lyceum He was a member of OXEN (YMCA) and District Secretary of the Pancyprian National Youth Organisation which ...