Thessaloniki Celebrates Patron Saint and Liberation from the Ottomans

Hundreds of citizens joining the celebrations for the 113 years since the liberation of Thessaloniki from the Ottoman Turks. Credit: AMNA / Achilleas Chiras

The metropolis of Thessaloniki celebrated connected Sunday, October 26, 113 years since its liberation from the Ottoman Turks.

The emblem was raised astatine the White Tower of Thessaloniki and cannons fired 21 times, hundreds of citizens joining the celebrations.

The glorious doxology astatine the religion of Saint Demetrios, the city’s patron saint who is besides celebrated today, was attended by the President of Hellenic Republic, Constantine Tassoulas, and different officials.

“The time of the liberation of Thessaloniki during the Balkan Wars is simply a time that vindicates the unity and concord of the Greek people, the army, and its leadership,” President Tassoulas commented.

“We gully inspiration, we honour, we commemorate, and we instrumentality illustration from this triumph and fto it beryllium known that this inspiration, this example, this remembrance, does not lone subordinate to the past – it relates to the contiguous and the aboriginal arsenic well,” helium added. “Because erstwhile a federation has specified memories, specified examples arsenic those of the liberation of Thessaloniki and the integration of Macedonia into Greece, it tin look to the aboriginal with optimism, confidence, and self-assurance.”

In his regular play station connected societal media connected Sunday, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis besides addressed the occasion: “This patriotism of work that unites, not divides, is what we request today.”

Thessaloniki’s treble celebration

October 26 marks a treble solemnisation for the humanities metropolis of Thessaloniki, bluish Greece.

The metropolis celebrates Saint Demetrios the Great Martyr, its patron saint, and astatine the aforesaid time, the liberation of the metropolis from the regularisation of the Ottoman Turks, which took spot connected this precise time successful 1912, erstwhile the Protocol of Surrender of the metropolis was signed betwixt the Turkish subject governor, Taksim Pasha, and the Greek officers representing the Greek General Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Dousmanis and Captain Metaxas.

Every year, Thessaloniki honours the time with three-day celebrations that volition culminate connected October 28, with a monolithic subject parade marking the day of the ”Ohi Day,” Greece’s rejection of Italy’s request to surrender to the Axis powers during World War II.