General Theodoros Kolokotronis - Athens, Greece
N 37° 58.683 E 023° 43.983
34S E 740048 N 4206904
A bronze statue of Theodoros Kolokotronis stands in front of the Old Parliament House, which now houses the National Historical Museum, in Athens, Greece.
Waymark Code: WM4TJ4
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 09/28/2008
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In front of the building stands a large equestrian statue of General Theodoros Kolokotronis, cast in bronze. It was sculpted by Lazaros Sochos in Paris in 1900, and erected in its current place in 1904. Its pedestal features bronze reliefs of the Battle of Dervenakia, and of a session of the Peloponnesian Senate during the Greek Revolution. The statue faces Stadiou Street; Kolokotronis turns his head towards the Parliament House and his hand is pointing the opposite way where, during the 19th century, the Royal Mews were located. According to a popular joke, the hero of the Revolution was showing parliamentarians that, because of their subservience to the King, the stables were their rightful place.
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Theodoros Kolokotronis (3 April 1770 - 15 February 1843) was a Greek general in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.