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Fort Roupel: The legendary monument – symbol of the struggle of the Greeks in the epic of the ’40s

Modern Greek history has been written in cities and villages, all over Greece. In Northern Greece, as in other areas, resistance against the Nazi troops was organized, while there it still exists today as one of the most important defensive points of World War II, Fort Roupel. It is the largest of all the forts of the "Metaxas line" in which great and historical moments of Greece were written. That is why the famous phrase that still exists today at its entrance was said, which says: "Forts do not surrender, ...

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