The Yessios Museum – The Macedonian Struggle and Edessa, Giannis Moschopoulos and FYLATOS publications invite you to the presentation of the book The secrets of Valtos or else… THE MACEDONIAN STRUGGLE AT LAKE GIANNITSON AND IN ROUMLOUKI – CAMPANIA (1901-1908)
The book will be presented by Giannis Papalazarou, teacher and author. The author of the book, Giannis Moschopoulos, and lawyer Iordanis Chatziantoniadis will read excerpts from the book, developing the topic:
"Agra is waging war, in Valtos, in ragazia."
Photographs will be shown, followed by a discussion.
Moderator: Iordanis Chatziantoniadis
Short biography of the Author
Giannis Moschopoulos was born and lives in Alexandreia. As a pupil he began collecting material and writing about the history, topography and folklore of his homeland. He studied law and practised as a lawyer for 40 years. He has been a founder and member of several cultural associations of the town. Since 1980 he has published articles in local newspapers, given lectures and taken part in seminars, conferences, and radio and television programmes. He served as a municipal councillor of Alexandreia and a prefectural councillor of Imathia. He works closely both with teachers on local history and folklore lessons for pupils and with university students on related projects. He is an associate member of the Hellenic Historical Society, chairman of the board of the Friends of the G. MELIKIS Ethnographic Centre – K.E.M. and a member of the Society for Macedonian Studies.
His publications focus on his birthplace, the plain of the Aliakmonas. His aim is to give a historical outline of the lowland area of Imathia known as Roumlouki. He now marks forty years of writing with his seventh book, "The secrets of the Swamp, differently …".
It is a self-contained monograph that sheds documented light on the eight-year conflict between Greeks, Bulgarians, Ottomans and pro-Romanians at Lake Giannitsa, where heroism and irregular warfare, personal sacrifices and strategies clashed to write new pages of modern Greek history. It reveals unknown details of that struggle, brings forgotten people and stories back to light, and illuminates aspects that were kept silent, events that were underestimated, heroic deeds that were ignored, and atrocities that marked the land and its people and left indelible marks.
He hopes that the book pays due honour to those who fought, sheds light on their contribution, at least in the eyes of their descendants, and helps all of us realise how every inch of the land where we were born and live was won.-
