PtD Konstantinos Tasoulas attended the double celebration of Kastoriatranslated

The President of the Republic Konstantinos A. Tassoulas visited today, Wednesday November 11, 2026, Kastoria to attend the celebrations for the memory of the Patron Saint Minas and the 114th anniversary of the liberation of the city. Mr. Tasoulas, after the Doxology at the Holy Metropolitan Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos pre-eminent of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Kastoria Mr. Kallinikos, laid a wreath at the Hero of the Fallen in Makedonomachon Square.

He then watched the parade of civilian and military units and immediately made the following statement:

"Immediately after the liberation of Thessaloniki, on October 26, 1912, the Greek General Headquarters turned its attention to Western Macedonia. The next 15 days were decisive for the outcome of the First Balkan War.

On this day, November 11, 114 years ago, the last large city of Western Macedonia, Kastoria, was liberated, on the day of Saint Minas, who is also its patron saint. With the liberation of Kastoria, a long cycle of Ottoman yoke is closed, which lasted over five centuries, during which the Greeks here maintained their faith and their Greekness.…