Panagiotis Skagiopoulos
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Panagiotis Skagiopoulos 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....

 merchant
Merchant
A merchant is a businessperson who trades in commodities that were produced by others, in order to earn a profit.Merchants can be one of two types:# A wholesale merchant operates in the chain between producer and retail merchant...

 and was a grape trader of a large company, the largest part that he help the philanthropic sentinel, a transaction that he done as he loved in Patras. In 1926, he built an orphanage centre where it still exist today in the city. The neighbourhood of Skagiopouleio
Skagiopouleio
Skagiopouleio is a neighbourhood in the southern part of the city of Patras. It was founded in 1926 as well as an orphanage center and it is named after Panagiotis Skagiopoulos for the aid of orphanages from the wars, the name is still used into the present day. From 1923, the neighbourhood...

is named after him.
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