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Arkadi

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Famous monastery on Crete where hundreds of Greeks committed mass suicide with gunpowder rather than surrender during an 1866 Ottoman siege.

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"Arkadi is probably the most famous of them due to it being where hundreds of Greeks blew themselves up with gunpowder barrels rather than surrender to the Ottomans during a rebellion on Crete in 1866"
The Monasteries of Crete · u/kinbote2049 · ↑57 · 2024-10-16
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