The Vodena society for the promotion of education

Abstract

The Vodena Society for the Promotion of Education did great service
to the educational development of Edessa and the surrounding area. It extended
various kinds of support to schools and teachers, provided books,
forged relationships and collaborated with other societies and with the National
University of Athens, created a collection of antiquities, and caused the
nation’s history, particularly Macedonian history, to be taught within the
Society itself. All these factors bear witness to its contribution during the critical
years 1972-4 in Macedonia and in Greece as a whole.