Emmanouil Pappas (village)
Emmanouil Pappas () is a village in the Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality of Emmanouil Pappas. It is situated in the foothills of mountain Menoikio, 17 km east of Serres, and 101 km northeast of Thessaloniki. The former name of the village was Dovista (Δοβίστα in standard Greek or Ντουβίστα/Duvista in the local dialect). It was renamed Emmanouil Pappas in 1927, after the hero of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia who was born there in 1773.
Elli Pappa
Elli Pappa (formerly Ioannidou; 1920-2009) was a Greek writer and activist. She was the sister of Greek author Dido Sotiriou and the partner of Nikos Beloyannis, with whom she had a son. As a member of the Communist Party of Greece, Pappa worked in the newspaper "Rizospastis" during the years of the Greek Resistance, and continued contributing articles during and after the Greek Civil War until her arrest in December 1950.