First Cemetery of Athens
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The First Cemetery of Athens is the official cemetery of the City of Athens and the first to be built. It opened in 1837 and soon became a prestigious cemetery for Greeks and foreigners. The cemetery
Aerial view of the First Cemetery of Athens
Tomb of Sofia Afentaki with the Sleeping Female Figure statue, a work of Yannoulis Chalepas.
Tomb of Georgios Averoff.
Tomb of Heinrich Schliemann.
Theodoros Kolokotronis
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Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
First Cemetery of Athens
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Portrait by Dionysios Tsokos (1861)
Imposing statue of Kolokotronis in Ramovouni, Messenia, his birthplace.
Lithography of Kolokotronis by Karl Krazeisen used for the 5000 drachma banknote
Kolokotronis after the Battle of Dervenakia.