Desfina, Phocis, Ottoman Empire (modern day Greece)
Died
April 23, 1821
Nationality
Greek
Bishop Isaiah of Salona (Greek: Ησαΐας Σαλώνων; 1780 – 23 April 1821) was a Greek cleric. He was the first bishop who died fighting in the Greek Revolution of 1821.[citation needed]
Bishop IsaiahofSalona (Greek: Ησαΐας Σαλώνων; 1780 – 23 April 1821) was a Greek cleric. He was the first bishop who died fighting in the Greek Revolution...
English poet and peer. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known...
enslavement, and flight of about four-fifths of the total population of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops, during the Greek War of Independence in...
The Battle of Arachova (Greek: Μάχη της Αράχωβας), took place between 18 and 24 November 1826 (N.S.). It was fought between an Ottoman Empire force under...
born Georgios Angelopoulos (Γεώργιος Αγγελόπουλος), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808, and from 1818 to 1821...
democratic nature of the revolutionary regime prior to the establishment of the independent Kingdom of Greece, and associate this period of Greek history...
military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence. Karaiskakis was a Sarakatsani. His father was the armatolos of the Valtos district, Dimitris...
[elefθeˈri.a i ˈθanatos]; 'Freedom or Death') is the motto of Greece. It originated in the Greek songs of resistance that were powerful motivating factors for...
resulted in the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece under a Bavarian prince. The decisions were ratified in the Treaty of Constantinople later that year...
and shows some of the horror of the wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre. A frieze-like display of suffering characters...
The first regions to revolt in Central Greece were Phocis (24 March) and Salona (27 March). In Boeotia, Livadeia was captured by Athanasios Diakos on 31...
the names of those having died. Louis Dupré's depiction of Greek irregulars hoisting the flag at Salona Panagiotis Kephalas plants the flag of liberty upon...
steal". After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 and then the fall of Mistra in the Despotate of the Morea, most of the plains of present-day Greece fell...
historical elite light infantry and mountain units of the Greek Army. Today, they are the members of the Presidential Guard (Greek: Προεδρική Φρουρά,...
War of Independence, leading several key battles. He was also member of the Filiki Eteria and the younger brother of Alexander Ypsilantis. A member of Phanariote...
near-by islands of Amfissa (then known as Salona), and after the treaty of Karlowitz (1699) they had moved and settled to the Phocian village of Dremissa where...
The siege of Tripolitsa or fall of Tripolitsa (Greek: Άλωση της Τριπολιτσάς, romanized: Álosi tis Tripolitsás, Greek pronunciation: [ˈalosi tis tripoliˈt͡sas])...
positions in the Ottoman Empire: Voivode of Moldavia, Voivode of Wallachia, Grand Dragoman of the Porte and Grand Dragoman of the Fleet. Despite their cosmopolitanism...
Valtinos (Greek: Θανασούλας Βαλτινός) was a Greek revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence. He was born in 1801 or 1802 in Messolonghi to a well-known...
The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October (O. S. 8 October) 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), in Navarino Bay...
Dionysios Solomos in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and some of its stanzas are used as the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus. It was set to music...
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in the area of Souli in Epirus from the 16th century to the beginning of the 19th century, who via their participation in the Greek War of Independence...
was a Greek military leader during the Greek War of Independence. Gouras was an Arvanite. A cousin of Panourgias, he distinguished himself in the battles...
the name of the wider neighborhood. The park was designed in 1934 and its purpose was to honor the heroes of the Greek Revolution of 1821, 21 of whom are...
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