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The Heyoneia Gate at the ancient harbor of Piraeus was built to guard the harbor from land incursions. The harbor outside here is where the battle of #Salamis took place almost 2500 years ago against the invading Persian Empire. Had the Greeks not won that battle, Western civilization as we know it would not exist.
The current fortifications on the site of the ancient kingdom of #Naftplio were completed by the Italians in 1714 with the help of a French architect who promptly sold the plans to the Ottoman Turks in 1715 to allow them to capture it
The town of #Naftplio was rebuilt after the Greek War of Independence by the young German king who was appointed by the British, French, and Russians. He later moved the capital of modern #Greece to Athens
The Russians, English, and French helped #Greece win its war of independence against the Ottoman Turks, so this is a memorial to the fallen French mariners and soldiers who helped recapture the ancient town of #Naftplio
Old town #Nafpoli, the first capitol of modern #Greece is built in the German style because the first king appointed after the war of independence was German.
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