The Agia Lavra monastery on Helmos Mountain is famously linked with the Greek War of Independence. Here, the call for Eleftheria I Thanatos (Freedom or Death) was first heard on 25 March 1821 by Bishop Germanos of Patras, before the launch of the revolution against the Ottoman Empire. That day the Greek flag was raised at the monastery.

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