Thessaloniki was also home to a military camp-converted-concentration camp, known in German as " Konzentrationslager Pavlo Mela " ( Pavlos Melas Concentration Camp ), where members of the resistance and other non-favourable people towards the German occupation from all over Greece were held either to be killed or sent to concentration camps elsewhere in Europe.

In Greek mythology, Porthaon (), sometimes referred to as Parthaon or Portheus, was the king of Calydon, husband of Euryte and father of Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope, also of the Argonaut Laocoön by an unnamed female servant, or by Euryte too.

He also had several sons, namely Melas, Talus, Maron, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas, who all sailed with him to Chios from Crete.

He also wrote under the name Teo Melas (" Melas " is Greek for " black ", just as " schwarz " is in German ).

The kidnapper replied that he would make it up to Melas, but also threatened him with unspecified retribution should the evening ’ s business ever be made public.

The man not only answered Latimer that he would never sign these papers, but he also answered Melas that his name was Paul Kratides, that he had been in London for three weeks, that he had no idea what house he was in, and that his captors at the house were starving him.

Nonetheless, by abandoning the San Giuliano plain, where the superior Austrian cavalry could have given him an edge, Melas probably made a serious mistake.

The Marengo farm garrison was abandoned and at around 2: 30 pm Melas led two cavalry squadrons to capture them.

Breaking in, they discover Melas and Kratides bound in a closed room where some charcoal has been lit to gas the two of them.

After leaving Kratides and Melas to die of sulfur poisoning, the two, along with Sophy, leave on a train bound for the European continent.

In 1800, Napoleon took personal command of the army in Italy, and eventually won a victory at the Battle of Marengo against the Austrian general Michael Melas, driving the Austrians back toward the Alps.

Melas was ushered back into the coach for another interminable ride and was deposited far from his home on Wandsworth Common.

The consul was almost defeated here until General Desaix made a timely arrival with reinforcements and drove back Melas, thus turning a French rout into a French victory.

Melas, who was slightly wounded, and 71, handed over command to his chief-of-staff, General Anton von Zach, and Kaim.

On the way there in Latimer ’ s coach, Melas noticed that the windows were papered over so that he could not see where he was.

Napoleon was effectively defeated in a tough battle in the morning and early afternoon ; Melas, thinking he had already won, had turned over delivery of the coup de grace to a subordinate, when the prompt return of a detached French force under Desaix and a vigorous French counter-attack ( in the course of which Desaix was killed ) converted the battle into an important French victory.

Melas split his army into three corps facing the Bormida, in front of Alessandria.

Convinced that Melas was about to retreat, Napoleon sent strong detachments to block Melas's routes northwards to the Po, and southwards to Genoa.

alt = Half-length portrait of General Melas dressed in a white Austrian general's uniform with a decoration on his chest.

The idea of organizing such periodical international gatherings was originally conveyed to Baden-Powell by the General Chief of the Scouts of Greece, Konstantinos (" Kokos ") Melas, during the 1918 international Scout meeting, in England.

The arrival of General of Cavalry Michael von Melas displaced Kray the top Austrian field command.

On 27 April, General of Cavalry Michael von Melas with the divisions of Fröhlich and Kaim stormed the French positions at Cassano, while Ott and Zoph attacked 6 km farther north at Vaprio d ' Adda.

After cutting Melas ’ s line of communications by crossing the river Po and defeating Feldmarschallleutnant ( FML ) Peter Karl Ott von Bátorkéz at Montebello on 9 June, the French closed in on the Austrian army, which had massed in Alessandria.

Within 24 hours of the battle, Melas entered into negotiations ( the Convention of Alessandria ) which led to the Austrians evacuating northwestern Italy west of the Ticino river, and suspending military operations in Italy.

Melas, trapped in Alessandria with his hopes of breaking through the east shattered, sent the same evening to Vienna a message in which he explained that the " charge of Kellermann had broken the soldiers and this sudden and terrible change of fortunes finished by smashing the courage of the troops.

The Maha ( great ) Kumbh Mela which comes after 12 ' Purna Kumbh Melas ', or 144 years, is held at Allahabad.

In the room into which he was led by Latimer and another, nervous, giggling gentleman — whose name is later discovered to be Wilson Kemp — Melas noticed a deep-pile carpet, a high marble mantel, and a suit of Japanese armour.

After the necessary legal procedures for securing a warrant have been completed, the group proceeds to Beckenham only to discover that the house, which indeed turns out to be as Melas has described, has been abandoned.

The CSD has ' Bi-annual Sales cum-After-Sales Melas ' at its Area Depots which includes items not in the CSD's inventory.

* about 100, 000 men in Northern Italy under Michael von Melas defending the Austrian possessions in Northern Italy, and the Po valley, which Napoleon had used as a backdoor to Vienna in his previous Italian campaigns

Melas promptly entered into negotiations which led to the Austrians evacuating Northern Italy west of the Ticino, and suspending military operations in Italy.

* A son of Parthaon, king of Calydon in Aetolia, and Euryte ; he was the brother of Oeneus ( who succeeded his father as king of Calydon ), Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope.

# Euryalus was one of the eight sons of Melas, who plotted against their uncle Oeneus and were slain by Tydeus.

Salem at one time was called Melas.

He became convinced that Melas would not attack, and further, that the Austrian was about to retreat.

It took Bonaparte ( 5 kilometers away from Marengo ) until about 10 am to recognize that the Austrian activity was not a diversionary attack to cover the anticipated retreat by Melas.

His father was a merchant, originally from Veria ( then under Ottoman rule, now in Macedonia ( Greece )) and his mother, Smaragda, was a member of the rich Melas family.

Melas was called upon one evening by a man named Harold Latimer to go to a house, supposedly in Kensington, to do some translation in a business matter.

Melas protested, saying that what Latimer was doing was unlawful.

It was dark, and Melas only got a general impression of a large lot as he was hustled out of the coach and into the house.

The house itself was poorly lit, but Melas made out that it was quite big.

Melas was sly enough to observe that his kidnappers were utterly ignorant of Greek, and used this to find out some information.