Konstantinos Smolenskis
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Konstantinos Smolenskis or Smolents was a Hellenic Army officer. Descendant of a family that had settled in the Habsburg monarchy and returned to Greece after the Greek War of Independence, early in h
A lithograph depicting Smolenskis and the Greco-Turkish War (1897).
A lithograph depicting Smolenskis and the Greco-Turkish War (1897).
Smolenskis with his staff observing the Battle of Velestino from the hills south of the namesake village.
Velestino
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Velestino is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Rigas Feraios.
Bronze figures from the Velestino Hoard, discovered in the village of Velestino in the 1920s and dating from as early as the 7th century AD. The findings are linked to the Slavic tribe of the Belegezites.
