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Mesolongion
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Mesolongion 

a city and port in Greece on the Gulf of Patrai in the Ionian Sea. Administrative center of the nome of Aetolia and Acarnania. Population, 11,600 (1971). The city has fish-processing, tobacco, and meat industries. The English poet Byron died in Mesolongion.
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The new feature of the modern Greek calendar will fall on April 19, the date Byron died in 1824 at Messolonghi in Western Greece.
Greeks honour fallen hero Byron with a day of his own by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Byron died of a fever inside the besieged city of Messolonghi, western Greece, around a year after arriving with money and resources for the bedraggled Greek revolutionary forces.
Greece to honour foreign warriors on Lord Byron's death day by AFP / AFP European Edition
Children of that race which set up the triumphs of the heroism of the holocausts of Messolonghi and Arcadi, let us not interrupt our way, the way which leads to the steep tops of the success of victory.
Disturbances in Cyprus in October, 1931 by Storrs, Ronald / Journal of Cyprus Studies
 
 
 
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