oil painting, 1825 1826, Benaki Museum . Armatoloi pronounced ar ma to LEE , Greek Language Greek ... , who was usually a kinsman, and the remaining force made up of armatoloi . Over time, the roles of the armatoloi and klephtes became blurred, with both reversing their roles and allegiances ... and violence on the local peasantry. During the Greek War of Independence , the armatoloi ... throughout its duration. Yannis Makriyannis referred to the klephtes and armatoloi as the yeast of liberty ... , but also armatoloi and klephts . Owing to the parallelism with , the word was also ..., and he had done well for himself out of the proceeds of the English loans. ref The armatoloi were ... , they did not disband or remove the armatoloi. In fact, the Ottomans established treaties with the armatoloi ... units of armatoloi or kapetanioi captains function as peace keepers in territories near ... of theft by the klephts. The armatoloi were mostly concentrated in Greek Macedonia Macedonia , Thessaly ... and the meintanides were similar to the armatoloi. If in certain regions, the institution ... the klephts and armatoloi utilized. These tactics are used today for unconventional military campaigns by small guerrilla groups. The armatoloi would conduct campaigns during nighttime. This strategy was known as going out to pagana . The armatoloi would usually do this when the klephts were coming out of their dens. The armatoloi would defend themselves in improvised forts called ... . A general offensive campaign by the armatoloi was known as giourousi . During one of these campaigns, the armatoloi would make effective use of swords and warcries. Before 1821 For the Ottomans, it became progressively more difficult for them to distinguish the armatoloi ... appearance of collaborations between armatoloi and klephts goes back to 1585 during the wars fought ... an insurrection in Acarnania and Epirus with armatoloi Poulios Drakos and Malamos from Epirus ... more details
Zisis Karademos lang el was a Greeks Greek armatoloi armatolos that led an uprising in Naousa, Imathia Naousa in western Macedonia Greece Macedonia in 1705. In 1705, a commissar of the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Sultan named Ahmet elebi came to Naousa, Imathia Naousa to select fifty male children for the dev irme conscription, to be raised as Janissary Janissaries . His arrival sparked a revolt in the town led by Zisis Karademos, his two sons and his band of armatoloi . Ahmet elebi and his entourage were slain. Karademos and about one hundred of his followers were subsequently attacked by a Turkish force led by the Bolukbashi Recep Aga near the river Arapitsa in the vicinity of Naousa. The rebels retreated towards the top of Vermio Mountains Mt Vermion and fled when Zisis Karademos was killed. Six of his followers, amongst them his two sons, were taken prisoner and were later hanged after a trial in Veria . Family members of the rebels were arrested 40 men and 29 women and were imprisoned in Thessaloniki . Putting down the rebellion cost the Ottoman Greece Ottoman purse 74,387 golden coins, according to a Turkish source. ref , . . 1821 . Thessaloniki , 1967. ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Karademos,Zisis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1705 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Karademos,Zisis Category 1705 deaths Category Macedonian revolutionaries Greek Category 18th century Greek people ... more details
Infobox military person name Giannis Stathas br small small birth date Birth date 1758 death date 1812 image nickname birth place Stathas Dounista Stathas , Ottoman Empire death place Amfilochia Karvassaras , Ottoman Empire allegiance branch serviceyears rank unit commands battles awards relations laterwork Giannis Stathas lang el 1758 1812 was a Greece Greek armatoloi armatolos during the pre Revolution era in Greece. He later became leader of a small fleet in the Aegean Sea . Family background His father was Gerodimos Stathas head of the Stathaioi family in the Valtos Province Valtos region in Central Greece. Gerodimos took part in the unsuccessful for the Greeks Orlov Revolt . After the Russo Turkish War, 1768 1774 Russo Turkish War ended, Gerodimos successfully defended against the Turkish reprisals that followed. Revolutionary Acts In 1804 he formed a regiment to help the Serbs that were rebelling against the Ottoman rule. ref The establishment of the Balkan national states, 1804 1920 by Charles&Barbara Jelavich ref After that he and some other armatoloi in the Mount Olympus Olympus area, declared the revolution against the Sultan. The Russian Alexander I of Russia Czar had promised them help, but they were again left to their fate. Stathas and a group of Greek military commanders fled to the Agean sea. In 1807, Kolokotronis met with them in Skiathos . There, Stathas and Nikotsaras were initiated to the Filiki Eteria . The Black Ships The group built up a fleet of 70 small ships divided into 10 squadrons. Giannis Iskos was named Admiral of this fleet with Nikotsaras second in command. The fleet allegedly hailed the flag that was to become the Flag of Greece Greek national flag after the revolution. All 70 ships were painted black. As, at the time, they were not serving a State and no war was declared, they were considered pirates. They took action in the Aegean sea, harassing the Turkish navy and blockading major ports in Thessalia ... more details
War of Independence . During the Greek War of Independence, the klephts, along with the armatoloi ... duration. Yannis Makriyannis referred to the klephtes and armatoloi as the yeast of liberty . ref Newer ... See also Armatoloi Ottoman Greece Hajduk References reflist 2 Sources refbegin 2 cite book last ... more details
Noref date May 2009 Dimitrios Panourgias lang el 1754 1834 , a Greeks Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence , was born Dimitrios Xiros lang el in the village of Dremissa, Phocis . Early life His parents originated from the village Aghios Georgios in Phocis, although he was born in Panourgias, Phocis Dremissa . His family name was Xiros , but the priest who baptised him thought he was a girl and named him Panorea , meaning very beautiful, and by that name he was by then being called. Klephtis and Armatolos File Panourgias.jpg thumb Dimitrios Panourgias. Panourgias entered the Armatoloi Armatoliki of Adroutsos Veroussis in 1790 and for a short time became commander of the Amfissa Salona armatolic district with the support of Ali Pasha , but quicly abandoned his position and turned himself into a Klepht . In 1816, however he rejoined Ali Pasha and was once more appointed as Armatolos in the Salona district. It was there where he became member of Filiki Eteria . Greek War of Independence On March 24, 1821 he started the Greek War of Independence Revolution in Salona and later collaborated with Athanasios Diakos and Dyovouniotis in order to hult Omer Vryonis from advancing further into Central Greece Roumeli . Panourgias with his band was to defend the hills of Chalkomata, near Thermopylae , but was seriously wounded during the fights and had to withdraw. He participated in January, 1822 to the 1st National Assembly at Epidauros as Salona representative and was the most important negotiator during the surrender of Acrocorinth to the Greek forces in 1822. He retired from military operations some months later, after he handed the leadership of his militia band to his son, Nakos Panourgias. See also Greek War of Independence References references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Panourgias, Dimitrios ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1754 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEA ... more details
, which was a nuisance for the Turkish navy during the war klephts and armatoloi rose once again ... . ref name Clogg Clogg, A Concise History of Greece , p. 29. ref col 2 col end Klephts and armatoloi main Klepht Armatoloi Image armatolos haag.jpg thumb Armatoloi Armatolos . Water Colour by Carl ... Christian militias, known as armatoloi Greek , to secure endangered areas, especially ... 1669 , p. 211 ref Boundaries between klephts and armatoloi were not clear, as the latter would often ..., Irregular Armed Forces , p. 156 ref Nevertheless, klephts and armatoloi formed a provincial elite ..., Irregular Armed Forces , p. 154 ref As the armatoloi s position gradually turned into a hereditary ... of Independence powerful armatoloi could be traced in Rumeli , modern Thessaly, Epirus and southern ... Makriyannis , klephts and armatoloi being the only available major military formation on the side ... more details
Infobox military person name Dimitris Plapoutas br small small birth date 15 May 1786 death date July, 1864 image Image Plapoutas Portrait.JPG 200px caption Portrait of Dimitris Plapoutas nickname Koliopoulos lang el . ref Kolokotronis, Theodoros. Apomnymonevmata Memoirs . Editions Vergina, Athens, 2002. ref birth place Paloumba , Arcadia death place Athens allegiance flagicon Greece old Greece branch serviceyears 18 rank General officer general unit commands battles Siege of Tripoli, Battles of Valtetsi and Maniaki Battle of Maniaki , Capture of the castle at Corinth Korinthos , Battle of Patras, awards relations laterwork Parliament 1844 1847, Senate 1847 1862 Dimitris Koliopoulos Plapoutas lang el May 15, 1786 &ndash July 1865 was a Greece Greek general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the Ottoman Empire . He was born on in Paloumba , Arcadia , the son of Kollias Plapoutas, an Armatoloi Armatolos , being this the reason why Theodoros Kolokotronis referred to him simply as Koliopoulos lang el . In 1811, he left Paloumba for the Ionian Islands where he became an officer in the British army . In 1818, he joined the Filiki Eteria , which was planning to liberate Greece from Ottoman control. During the revolution, Dimitris Plapoutas took part in the Siege of Tripoli , the capture of the castle at Corinth Korinthos , the Battle of Valtetsi , the Battle of Maniaki and other battles. After independence, in 1833, along with General Theodoros Kolokotronis and General Kitsos Tzavelas , Plapoutas supported Otto of Greece Prince Otto of Bavaria as the King of Greece. However, later he opposed the Bavarian dominated regency during his rule. He was charged with high treason and on June 7, 1834 he was imprisoned at the Palamidi along with Kolokotronis and sentenced to death. He was later pardoned in 1835. Plapoutas then became involved in Greek politics and served in Pa ... more details
Anastasios Karatasos lang el 1764 1830 was a Greeks Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence was born in the village of Dovras , Imathia Prefecture and is considered to be the most important revolutionary from Macedonia Greece Macedonia . Klephtis and Greek War of Independence Karatasos became a Klepht at the age of eighteen and became quite famous for his actions in the Mount Olympus Olympus area before he joined the Greek War of Independence Revolution . In 1804 with the Armatoloi Armatolos Vassilios Romfeis he defended Naoussa from the attacking forces of Ali Pasha , but he didn t managed to save the city, that was captured five months later. In March, 1821 when Emmanouel Pappas started the Revolution in Chalkidiki he collaborated with him trying to spread it through the entire region but their actions were not well coordinated. Large numbers of Ottoman forces from Thessaloniki were able to defeat the Greek revolutinary forces and Emmanuel Pappas was retired to Mount Athos . He returned to Naoussa that was liberated from Ottomans on February 19, 1822 under the leadership of Zafeirakis Theodosiou . In April, 1822 the Pasha f Thessaloniki, Abdul Abut with 18,000 men besieged Naoussa and fourteen days later he captured and destroyed the city. Karatasos was responsible for the defence and managed to save himself and his family, escaping from the burned town. He continued the Revolution in Macedonia and later in 1823 he trapped and destroyed a two thousand men corps of Janissaries in the Mpampa Bridge at Pineios . Descent to South Greece Also in 1823 with the Klepht Aggelis Gatsos and their bands, they crossed Mount Olympus and he collaborated with Georgios Karaiskakis at Agrafa , and Mesologgi , while he fought at the Battle of Peta and performed guerilla operations in Thessaly . In his letters to the Revolutionary movement he complained about the lack of supplies for his band, although he fought in numerous battles at Nafpl ... more details
Androutsos became the captain of a unit of armatoloi at Livadeia , Diakos served for a time as his ... , Diakos had formed his own band of klephtes and, like many other klepht and armatoloi ... more details
Refimprove date November 2010 Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Alamana partof the Greek War of Independence image caption The Battle of Alamana 1821 by Alexandros Isaias date April 1821 place Thermopylae , Greece casus territory result Ottoman victory combatant1 Image Flag of Greece 1821 .svg border 22px Greece combatant2 flagcountry Ottoman Empire 1453 commander1 Athanasios Diakos KIA br Dimitrios Panourgias br Ioannis Dyovouniotis commander2 Omer Vrioni strength1 1,500 irregulars strength2 8,000 troops casualties1 unknown casualties2 unknown The Battle of Alamana was fought between the Greeks and the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence on April 22nd, 1821 ref http el.wikipedia.org wiki CE 9C CE AC CF 87 CE B7 CF 84 CE B7 CF 82 CE 91 CE BB CE B1 CE BC CE AC CE BD CE B1 CF 82 ref . Battle File Athanasios Diakos.JPG thumb left 160px Athanasios Diakos . Campaignbox Greek War of Independence Omer Vrioni , the commander of the Ottoman army, advanced with 8,000 men from Thessaly to crush the revolt that had broken out in Peloponnesos . Athanasios Diakos he was an ex deacon Diakos Gr. for deacon who then became a trainee monk but gave it up for the War of Independence , Panourgias Panourgias and Yiannis Dyovouniotis with their bands of armatoloi a total of perhaps 1,500 men took up defensive positions at the river Spercheios River Alamana Spercheios the alternative name for the river is a misnomer as the local memory confused Brennus men 287 BC with Allamani , near Thermopylae . Vrioni s attack forced Panourgias and Dyovouniotis to retreat, leaving Diakos alone. Diakos s men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed. Death of Diakos Eventually, Diakos himself was captured and taken to Vrioni after he was shot in the foot and had his sword broken. When Vrioni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army, Diakos immediately refused and replied blockquote I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek . blockquote Vrioni then ordered that ... more details
File Yero Tsiamis of Chalkidiki, Greek Macedonian revolutionary 1854.jpg thumb right 200px Greek Macedonian rebel Yero Tsamis of Imathia operated in the Macedonian insurrection against the Ottoman rule, in Chalkidiki Dimitrios Tsamis Karatasos lang el , 1798 1861 , was a Greeks Greek Armatoloi armatolos , the son of Anastasios Karatasos who had proclaimed the Greek Revolution in the Naoussa area in 1821. ref name BalkanStudies2 cite book author Institute for Balkan Studies title Why wars widen url http books.google.com books?id WHppAAAAMAAJ&q Macedonian rebellion of 1854&dq Macedonian rebellion of 1854&client firefox a&pgis 1 publisher Society for Macedonian Studies, 1976 accessdate 2009 04 24 pages 49 50 ref Karatasos was born in Dihalevri, Imathia , Macedonia in 1798. He fought during the Greek War of Independence War of Independence , alongside his father, first in the Naoussa area and, after the destruction of Naoussa, in Rumeli . In 1828, he was a leading figure in the final phase of the war to rid Rumeli of all Ottoman Empire Turkish military presence. Like his father, Dimitrios was a supporter of a Greek Serbian Entente in order to relieve the Balkans from the Ottoman occupation. During the period 1844 1853 he ventured in the Serbian communities in Trieste and in Skopje in order to find support for a common cause. His assignments were semi official and one could state that he was a kind of modern day political agent trying to forge alliances within the realm of secret diplomacy. After Greek independence, Tsamis Karatasos continued the struggle to liberate his native Greek Macedonians taking part in an 1854 liberation movement in Chalkidiki . He was one of the prime instigators of the revolt ref name BalkanStudies cite book author Institute for Balkan Studies title Why wars widen url http books.google.com books?client firefox a&id WHppAAAAMAAJ&dq tsiamis chalkidiki&q tsiamis chalkidiki&pgis 1 search anchor publisher Soci ... more details
Infobox military person name Giorgakis Olympios br small small birth date 1772 death date 1821 birth place Livadi , Larissa , Ottoman Empire death place Neam County Neam , Moldavia image File Olympios giorgakis.jpg 180px nickname birth name allegiance nowiki nowiki flagicon image Greek Revolution flag.svg First Hellenic Republic Greek revolutionaries flagicon image FLAG Topola.gif Serbian revolution aries serviceyears rank commands battles nowiki nowiki First Serbian Uprising 1804 1806 Greek War of Independence 1817 1821 awards Giorgakis Olympios lang el lang ro Iordache Olimpiotul 1772 1821 was a Greeks Greek Armatoloi armatolos and military commander during the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire . Noted for his activities with the Filiki Eteria in the Danubian Principalities , he is considered to be a leading figure of the Greek Revolution. Biography Early activities He was born in the village of Livadi , near Larissa , on Mount Olympus , in Ottoman Greece Ottoman ruled Greece . After joining the Armatolikia in the Olympus area around the age of 20, Olympios became a prominent member of the local society by protecting villages from the Ali Pasha s raids when the powerful Pasha started expanding his authority out of Epirus . In 1798, however, he was forced to abandon his birthplace due to Ali Pasha s hostility towards him, and fled to Serbia , where he collaborated for some time with Kara or e Petrovi during the First Serbian Uprising he is known in Serbia as Kapetan Jorga , Captain Giorgakis . He became supporter of the ideas espoused by Rigas Feraios pertaining to a common Balkans Balkan revolution against Ottoman rule, and moved to Wallachia . There, with the help of Constantine Ypsilantis , he composed a military force of Greeks to fight alongside the Russian Empire in the Russo Turkish War 1806 1812 Russo Turkish War of 1806 . After the Battle of Ostrova , he was named a Polkovnik in the Military histo ... more details
Infobox military person name Dimitrios Makris birth date 1772 death date 1841 birth place Gavalou now Evrytania , Aetolia , Ottoman Greece death place Gavalou now Evrytania , Aetolia Acarnania , Kingdom of Greece image Image Dimitrios Makris Greek Independence Fighter.JPG 250px allegiance flag Greece old serviceyears 1821 1840 commands battles Greek War of Independence , Third Siege of Missolonghi awards Dimitrios Makris lang el , c. 1772 1841 was a Greek people Greek ref cite book author title The United service magazine, Part 1 publisher H. Colburn year 1857 page 254 oclc 297320642 quote One of the Greek chiefs, by name Demetrius Makris, however, once more rallied the fainting Greeks in fighting order, and made head against the Albanians. ref chief klepht , ref cite book author Dontas, Domna N. title The last phase of the War of Independence in Western Greece December 1827 to May 1829, Volume 1966 publisher Adolf M. Hakkert year 1990 page 24 isbn 9025609872 quote in 1800, Demetrios Makris, a kleftis, had succeeded his father to the kapetaniliki in the district of Zyghos. A simple yet very stubborn man, ref Armatoloi armatole ref cite book author Dakin, Douglas title The Greek struggle for independence, 1821 1833 publisher University of California Press year 1973 page 232 isbn 0520023420 quote the chiefs Dimitrios Makris Makris, armatolos of Zigos, was one of the heroes of Mesolonghi. He had acquired much wealth by plundering the Turks of Vrachori, and he had done well for himself out of the proceeds of the English loans. ref military commander and fighter of the Greek War of Independence 1821 revolution . He was a member of Filiki Eteria and one of the most powerful chieftains in West Central Greece . Early life Dimitrios Makris was born in 1772 in Gavalou Evrytania . His father was Evangelos Makris, who had taken part in the Greek revolt in 1770. After his death Dimitrios became Captain in the district of Zyghos. ref cite book author Dontas, Domn ... more details
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Infobox Military Conflict conflict Battle of Valtetsi partof the Greek War of Independence image Image Kolokotronis marching.jpg 350px caption Kolokotronis leading his army towards Valtetsi date May 24, 1821 12 May Julian place Valtetsi village Valtetsi , Greece casus territory result Decisive Greek victory combatant1 Image Flag of Greece 1821 .svg 20px border Greek War of Independence The Revolution in the Peloponnese Greek Revolutionary Army combatant2 Image Flag of the Ottoman Empire 1453 1844 .svg 20px Ottoman Empire commander1 Image Flag of Greece 1821 .svg 20px border Theodoros Kolokotronis br Image Mani Flag Greece .svg 30px Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis military commander Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis commander2 Image Flag of the Ottoman Empire 1453 1844 .svg 20px Kehayabey Mustafa br Image Flag of the Ottoman Empire 1453 1844 .svg 20px Ruby Bey strength1 3,000 strength2 5,000 ref Thomas Gordon British Army officer T. Gordon , History of the Greek Revolution , T1 p. 160 ref casualties1 150 rebels dead casualties2 600 700 dead Campaignbox Greek War of Independence The Battle of Valtetsi was fought on May 12 Old Style and New Style dates O.S. , 1821 in Valtetsi village Valtetsi between the Ottoman Empire Ottoman army and Greeks Greek revolutionaries. Background The Greek War of Independence officially broke out on March 25, 1821. The city of Tripolitsa Tripoli in Arcadia , central Peloponnesus , became a prime objective of the Greek revolutionary army. Only the warlike Maniots were experts in the art of battle. Besides them, klepht es who lived in mountains, as well as the armatoloi , who had for centuries been hired by the local Ottoman authorities initially to guard the mountain passes and later for the general keeping of law and order were able to make a coherent force. ref Clogg, Richard A Concise History of Greece Second Edition pg. 15 17. Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0 521 00479 9 ref During April 1821, the initially small Greek forces in the area were ... more details
was a nuisance for the Ottoman navy during the war klephts and armatoloi rose once again. ref Svoronos ... History of Greece , p. 29. ref col 2 col end Klephts and armatoloi File BoningtonArmatolos.jpg thumb ... Christian militias, known as armatoloi , to secure endangered areas, especially mountain ... 1669 , p. 211 ref The distinction between klephts and armatoloi was not clear, as the latter would often ..., Irregular Armed Forces , p. 156 ref Nevertheless, klephts and armatoloi formed a provincial elite ... Batalas, Irregular Armed Forces , p. 154 ref As the armatoloi s position gradually turned into a hereditary ... of Independence powerful armatoloi could be traced in Rumeli , Thessaly, Epirus and southern ... leader and writer Yannis Makriyannis , klephts and armatoloi being the only available major military ... arranged a meeting with other armatoloi they decided that the insurrection should be based on three ... more details
was worn by the klephts and the armatoloi . ref harvnb Ethniko Historiko Mouseio Greece , Maria ... War of Independence noted the great pride which the klephts and armatoloi took in their fustanella ... more details
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