1788 or 1791[1] Ano Mousounitsa or Artotina, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died
24 April 1821 (aged 30 or 33) Lamia, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Allegiance
Revolutionary Greece
Service/branch
Hellenic Army
Years of service
1821
Rank
General (posthumously)
Commands held
Commander of his armed band
Wars
Greek War of Independence
Battle of Alamana
Memorials
Athanasios Diakos (village) and others
Other work
Monk Member of the Filiki Etaireia
Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas
or Grammatikos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας-Γραμματικός; 1788 – 24 April 1821) also known as Athanasios Diakos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Διάκος) was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence, considered a venerable national hero in Greece.
^Bopis, Dimitris (2007). "Αθανάσιος Διάκος, ο πρώτος μάρτυρας του αγώνα" [Athanasios Diakos, the first martyr of the struggle]. Στρατιωτική Ιστορία ("Military History") (in Greek). Περισκόπιο ("Periskopio") (128): 11.
Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas or Grammatikos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας-Γραμματικός; 1788 – 24 April 1821) also known as Athanasios Diakos...
The Apotheosis of AthanasiosDiakos (Greek: Αποθέωση του Αθανασίου Διάκου) is an oil painting by Konstantinos Parthenis created in 1933. The oil painting...
April 1821 to a contingent of Greek fighters under the command of AthanasiosDiakos and Vasilis Bousgos, Hursid Pasha sent two of his most competent commanders...
of Independence AthanasiosDiakos, Greece, a mountain village in Phocis, Greece Athanasiou Diakou Street, Athens, Greece Dionysis Diakos (1805-1887), military...
armatoles leaders were Odysseas Androutsos, Georgios Karaiskakis, AthanasiosDiakos, Markos Botsaris and Giannis Stathas. Due to economic developments...
September 2020 the Municipal of Lamia changed the name of the stadium to AthanasiosDiakos, who was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence...
emblem that uses the club today was presented in 2014 and depicts AthanasiosDiakos, the hero of Roumeli, in his upper right hand side. The colours of...
Athanasios or Thanasoulas Valtinos (Greek: Θανασούλας Βαλτινός) was a Greek revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence. He was born in 1801 or 1802...
Athanasiou Diakou), named after the Greek War of Independence hero AthanasiosDiakos, is a short but wide central street in Athens linking Vasilissis Amalias...
Greeks at the Battle of Alamana and the execution of their leader AthanasiosDiakos, planned to attack the Peloponnese with an army of 11,000 men. However...
a ford further upriver. In 1821, a force of Greek fighters led by AthanasiosDiakos made a stand near the pass to stop a force of 8,000 Turks from marching...
Nikolaos Skoufas from the Arta province, Emmanuil Xanthos from Patmos and Athanasios Tsakalov from Ioannina. Soon after they initiated a fourth member, Panagiotis...
Those schools were operating by prestigious staff among them philologist Athanasios Psalidas, major contributor to the modern Greek Enlightenment and Georgios...
defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Alamana and had their commander, AthanasiosDiakos, impaled. Vrioni's advance was temporarily halted by Odysseas Androutsos...
to join the uprising, on 20 May 1822, led by the town elders, such as Athanasios Razikotsikas. With the aid of the klepht chieftain Dimitrios Makris, the...
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