Calliope Tatti () was born in
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
,
Ottoman Empire
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in 1894. Great-granddaughter of Constantine Tattis who was member of the secret Greek society
Filiki Eteria
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which in early 19th century organized the successful
Greek War of Independence
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against the Ottoman Empire. Spouse of the Cretan gendarmerie officer
Evangelos Sarris
Evangelos Sarris ( el, Ευάγγελος Σαρρής; 1881 – February 1917) was an officer of the Cretan gendarmerie and one of the leaders of the National Defence movement in Greece.
Born in 1881 in Neapoli, Crete (province Mirabello Provinc ...
. After his premature death in 1917 she got married in 1922 to the chairman of the BAR association of Thessaloniki
George Seremetis who was one of the most prominent attorneys in the city. He later served as mayor of the same city.
Calliope Tatti studied at the English school of Thessaloniki during the years of the Ottoman administration. She spoke fluently
English
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,
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,
Turkish
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and Greek.
Thessaloniki was captured by the
Hellenic Army
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under
Crown Prince
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Constantine
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during the first year of the
First Balkan War
The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...
(1912). Tatti immediately after the capture of Thessaloniki she volunteered to serve as a nurse in the hospital organized by the "Central City School" that was taking care of the wounded soldiers during both
Balkan Wars
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.
From her two marriages she had three sons, the first Constantine Sarris from the first husband and the two others from the second (
Dimitrios Seremetis and
Michael Seremetis). The first 2 sons became lawyers and practiced law in Thessaloniki and the third one became a physician (thoracic surgeon) who was trained and practiced in the
United States
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.
She participated to a great number of charitable associations with considerable social service in Thessaloniki. She served as vice-president and later chairman of the “-Phoenix” charitable association (1933-1941) and the "Philoptochos Fraternity of Thessaloniki ladies" (1940-1950).
She offered a great deal of her own financial resources for the relief of her fellow-citizens during the starvation period of the German occupation (1941–1944).
She died in September 1978.
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1894 births
1978 deaths
Health professionals from Thessaloniki
Female wartime nurses
Ottoman Thessalonica
Greek nurses