Book Hotels in Meligalas
Population: Unkown
Latitude: 21.968954
Longitude: 37.225047
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Meligalas (Greek: Μελιγαλάς) is a village and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Oichalia, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 4,040 (2001).
After the Germans left southern Greece terminating the occupation of Kalamata and surrounding Messinia area, Axis Occupation of Greece (1941–1944), the town became the site of a battle between the communist-dominated Greek Resistance forces of EAM-ELAS commanded by Aris Velouchiotis and the Security Battalions that had been stationed in the town during German occupation. After a 14-day siege of the town (Sept. 2, 1944 to Sept. 16, 1944), Meligalas fell to the hands of the Resistance forces. Following the fall of the city, the unknown correctly number of Nazi collaborationists were executed by the partisans for treason and collaboration with the occupation forces. Their bodies were subsequently thrown in a well shaft known as "pigada". Far-right and pro-nazi factions in Greece claim "thousands of civilian casualties", a claim unsupported even by relatives of the executed. After the Occupation and the end of the Greek Civil War, right wing governments used to pay tribute to the executed, a practice which ceased after the fall of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 (whose leader, George Papadopoulos, was in fact a member of the Security Battalions himself during the Axis Occupation of Greece).
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