Missolonghi

American  

[mis-uh-lawng-gee] / ˌmɪs əˈlɔŋ gi /

noun

1. a town in W Greece, on the Gulf of Patras: Byron died here 1824.

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Missolonghi British  

/ ˌmɪsəˈlɒŋɡɪ /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Mesolóngion.  a town in W Greece, near the Gulf of Patras: famous for its defence against the Turks in 1822–23 and 1825–26 and for its association with Lord Byron, who died here in 1824. Pop (municipality): 18 354 (2001)

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Missolonghi

The worst mismanagement in literary history was of Byron’s unpublished memoirs, which became an issue as soon as the news of his death in Missolonghi reached London.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2018

Parisian newspapers had closely followed the Missolonghi story, and one even published a lengthy Victor Hugo poem inspired by it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2015

When a writer embraces history writ large, when he leaves for Catalonia or Missolonghi, is that politics, or is literature still involved?

From Newsweek ● Jun. 16, 2013

There are so many great Burns and Byron love poems, but my favourite is Byron's poem to a young man at Missolonghi who looked after him in his last illness.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

But though the Greeks fought in strange ways of their own, they at least won respect and interest by their untamableness, and though Missolonghi was taken, it was only after a most glorious resistance. 

From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte Mary Yonge