Annunciation/Independence Day
(left) Icon of the Annunciation of the Theotokos. (right) Vryzakis Theodoros (1814 or 1819 - 1878) oil painting “The Bishop of Old Patras Germanos Blesses the Flag of Revolution, 1865,” image courtesy of The Alexandros Soutsos Museum of the National Gallery of Greece
“Palaion Patron Germanos: A Misunderstood Hero of the Greek War of Independence,” By Philip Chrysopoulos, Greek Reporter, March 23, 2024, https://greekreporter.com/2024/03/23/palaion-patron-germanos-hero-greek-war-independence/
“March 25: A double celebration of Greek Independence Day and the Annunciation,” 24 /03/ 2021, The Greek Herald, https://greekherald.com.au/culture/march-25-double-celebration-greek-independence-day-annuncia/
“March 25th: A day commemorating history and religion,” by
Evelyn Karatzas, 23 / 03 / 2024, The Greek Herald, https://greekherald.com.au/culture/history/march-25th-a-day-commemorating-history-and-religion/
“Archbishop of America on the Greek Independence Day: Long live Greece! Long Ukraine!” Mar 26, 2022, Orthodox Times, https://orthodoxtimes.com/archbishop-of-america-on-the-greek-independence-day-long-live-greece-long-ukraine/
An historical sketch of the Greek revolution. By Samuel G. Howe, M.D., late surgeon in chief to the Greek fleet, New York, White, Gallaher & White, 1828, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009322891
The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary, ed. Paschalis M. Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsourakalas, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2021
Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution, ed. April Kalogeropoulsos Householder, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2023
The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower, Penguin Press, NYC, 2021
“March 25th Marks the Annunciation, a Feast for Orthodoxy and Hellenism,”By Tasos Kokkinidis, March 25, 2024, Greek Reporter, https://greekreporter.com/2024/03/25/march-25th-annunciation-feast-orthodoxy-hellenism/
“March 25: A double Celebration of the Annunciation of Virgin Mary and Greek Independence Day,” MARCH 25, 2023, The Holy Art, https://theholyart.org/blogs/news/march-25-a-double-celebration-of-the-annunciation-and-greek-independence-day
“Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos,”25 MARCH 2022, Greek City Times, https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/25/feast-annunciation-theotokos-2/
“Traditional Greek Recipes: Bakaliaros Skordalia,” 21/03/ 2021, The Greek Herald, https://greekherald.com.au/lifestyle/food-lifestyle/bakaliaros-skordalia-traditional-dish-greek-independence-da/
“The Great And Holy Feast Of The Annunciation Of The Ever-Virgin Mary The Theotokos And The Celebration Of The Greek Independence Day Of 1821," March 26, 2014, St Andrew Greek Orthodox, South Bend, Indiana,
“State Symbols,” Hellenic Republic: Greece in America, https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/about-greece/government-and-politics/state-symbols.html#:~:text=The National Flag of Greece,of the Greek independence struggle.
History of the war of independence in Greece, Vol. 1 by Thomas Keightley, Edinburgh : Printed for Constable and Co., 1830, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000653269
The war of Greek independence, 1821 to 1833 by W. Alison Phillips, London : Smith, Elder & co., 1897, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000653995
History of the Greek revolution Vol. 1 by George Finlay, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and sons, 1861, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000652391
History of the Greek revolution v. 1, by Thomas Gordon, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood; 1832, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010313594
“Greek Independence Day,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-Independence-Day
“Metropolitan: ecclesiastical title,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/metropolitan