ΧΑΪΔΑΡΙ ΧΑΪΔΑΡΙ - ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ | Page 293

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Contents
Mayor’s Greeting ..........................................................................................9
Introductory Note ....................................................................................... 12
Chapter I Ancient period: Sacred Way
– Hermos Deme .......................................................................................... 67
Pausanias in Chaidari ................................................................................... 67
Starting point: Dipylon and Sacred Gate....................................... 67
The Sacred Way ..............................................................................................68
Monuments along the Sacred Way .................................................. 69
The burial monument of Pythionike
on the Prophitis Ilias hill ..............................................................................69
The sanctuary of Apollo in Daphni .................................................... 69
The Cave of Pan ina Daphni ..................................................................70
The Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Skaramangas ..........................70
Sacred Way and Echo hill ......................................................................... 71
Reitoi (Koumoundourou Lake) ................................................................ 71
Epilogue: Arrival at Eleusina .................................................................... 72
Kleisthenes’ reformations and the Hermos deme .................. 72
Theseus travels to Athens
and meets Prokroustes at Chaidari ................................................... 73
The Sacred Way today .............................................................................. 75
Chapter II Chaidari during Byzantine and post-
Byzantine times: The Daphni Monastery ...................... 143
The origin of the name of the Daphni Monastery ................ 143
A suggestion for re-dating the establishment
of the Daphni Monastery .........................................................................143
The Daphni Monastery in the 11th and 12th century ...........144
The Daphni Monastery
and the Cistercian monks (1207-1458) ...........................................144
The Daphni Monasteri in the Ottoman period ......................... 145
The Daphni Monastery during the 1821 Revolution ..............146
The Daphni Monastery after the Revolution ............................. 146
Intervention – excavation – restoration
(end of 19th – beginning of 21st century) .................................... 147
The architecture of the Daphni Monastery ............................... 148
The mosaic decoration of the Daphni Monastery ................ 151
The technique of the Byzantine mosaics .................................. 154
The church of Prophetis Ilias ............................................................... 155
The church of Agios Georgios ........................................................... 155
The area of Daphni today ...................................................................... 157
Chapter III Modern period: Chaidari and the 1821
Struggle– The Palataki villa ........................................................... 211
After the fall of Mesolongi: Kutahiye in Athens ...................... 211
Karaiskakis as commander-in-chief of Roumeli ................... 211
The battles of Chaidari in August 1826..........................................212
Faviere on the Chaidari battles ...........................................................212
Kutahiye on the Chaidari battles ....................................................... 213
The reverberations of the Chaidari clashes:
Karaiskakis talks with Kytahiye ........................................................... 213
The developments until the battle of Analatos
(24 April 1827) ................................................................................................... 214
The battle of Daphni (21 March 1827) ............................................ 214
The area of the great battle of Chaidari during
the 2nd half of the 19th century: The Palataki tower......... 215
Nikephoros Lytras and Nikolaos Gyzis in Chaidari................217
The paintings in Agios Georgios ........................................................217
Nikolaos Gyzis and the paintings of the guest quarters
of the Palataki villa (neoclassical building) .................................217
The restoration and promotion of the Palataki tower
and the «N. Gyzis» building ..................................................................... 219
Restoration works at Palataki .............................................................. 219
The «N. Gyzis» neoclassical building .............................................. 219
The new Town Hall ...................................................................................... 219
The historical pedestrian way
of Stratarchou Karaiskaki Street ....................................................... 219
Chapter IV Occupation – National Resistance
– The Chaidari camp .......................................................................... 259
The German occupation of Chaidari ............................................. 259
The foundation of the camp (September 1943) ................... 260
Description of the camp buildings .................................................. 260
The Chaidari camp before the S.S. ................................................. 261
The Chaidari S.S. camp – major Paul Radomski ....................262
The fi rst execution in Chaidari .............................................................262
Block 15 ................................................................................................................ 263
C ommander Karl Fischer ....................................................................... 264
The execution of the two hundred - May 1944 .................... 265
Napoleon Soukatzidis................................................................................ 265
Women in Chaidari ...................................................................................... 266
Jews in Chaidari ............................................................................................ 266
The Chaidari camp within historical memory .......................... 269
Acknowledgements .....................................................................................275
Bibliography ...................................................................................................... 285