10 Facts About Evagoras Pallikarides

Evagoras Pallikarides was arrested on 18 December 1956 when he was caught carrying weaponry on a donkey, to which he confessed in his trial.

Evagoras Pallikarides was sentenced to death by hanging for firearms possession on 27 February 1957 and was the youngest insurgent to be executed in Cyprus.

Evagoras Pallikarides's death generated widespread controversy due to his young age and the circumstances of his arrest.

Evagoras Pallikarides was born in the village of Tsada in Paphos.

Evagoras Pallikarides was the fourth and youngest child of the Pallikarides family of farmers.

At the age of 17, Evagoras Pallikarides joined the EOKA as a junior member.

Evagoras Pallikarides was arrested and accused of organizing civil unrest, which he denied.

Evagoras Pallikarides was the youngest and last EOKA insurgent to be executed by the British government during the Cyprus Emergency.

Such "animosity related to Queen Elizabeth's presumed association with the execution" of Evagoras Pallikarides continues to exist in the present day among Cypriots.

The football club Evagoras Pallikarides Paphos, established after Cyprus gained its independence in 1960, was named after him.