Leonidas Varouxis
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Leonidas Varouxis was a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 journalist and a politician. The Varouxises was a key element inf the family Spilotopoulos from Dimitsana
Dimitsana
Dimitsana is a village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Gortynia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It is built on the ruins of the ancient town Teuthis...

, and participated the Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...

 of 1921.

Varouxis was born in Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. In 1892, he ran the weekly paper Avgi. He was a brother of Konstantinos Varouxis
Konstantinos Varouxis
Konstantinos Varouxis was a Greek journalist and a publisher.Varouxis was born in Pyrgos and was descended from a family of journalists. The Varouxises was a key of the family Spilotopoulos from Dimitsana in which they participated the Greek War of Independence of 1921. In 1892, he ran the...

 and was employed as a journalist in the newspaper Akropolis in the capital city of Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

. He ran the first daily newspaper in Pyrgos
Patris in 1902, he was councilled in the spiritual regeneration of his topic. He was taught as a journalist and a publisher of Gavriilidis of Akropolis. In 1917, in newspapers of the period, he wrote about the voting of the electorate area of Ilia. Area in which he conjectured that he knew in 1929, along with the sources which drew up from Ilia's newspapers He called off his publishing on the newspaper in which he made a new circulation by his nephew in 1955.

Varouxis died in 1951.
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