Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary (1757–1798)
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Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios. Portrait by Andreas Kriezis (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Born
1757
Feres (Velestino), Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died
24 June 1798(1798-06-24) (aged 40–41)
Belgrade, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia)
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Region
Western philosophy
School
Modern Greek Enlightenment
Main interests
Popular sovereignty, civil liberties, constitutional state, freedom of religion, civic nationalism
Signature
Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίοςpronounced[ˈriɣasfɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu[1]) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced[vɛlɛstinˈlis], also transliterated Velestinles); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρήγας Βελεστινλής),[2] was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece.
^"Di iu, di cându, di cari?". Fârshârotu (in Aromanian). 30: 3. October–December 2009.
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the plague in 1813, reduced the population to some 200,000 by 1820. RigasFeraios, the important Greek intellectual and forerunner of the Greek War of...
with the French War of Independence and eventually The Pamphlet of RigasFeraios was published in 1797. The pamphlet was an instrument to awaken Greek...
of the Greek writers and intellectuals was RigasFeraios. Deeply influenced by the French Revolution, Rigas was the first to conceive and organize a comprehensive...
Flag of the Free State of Icaria Proposed flag of Greece as drawn by RigasFeraios in his manuscripts. Bishop Germanos of Patras blessing the flag of the...
cusp between the 18th and the 19th century, revolutionaries, such as RigasFeraios and Adamantios Korais, referred admiringly to the Souliots and registered...
Sochos in front of the Old Parliament; statues of Ioannis Kapodistrias, RigasFeraios and Adamantios Korais at the university; of Evangelos Zappas and Konstantinos...
influential in Greek politics, business and the army. Revolutionaries RigasFeraios and Giorgakis Olympios, Prime Minister Ioannis Kolettis, billionaires...
the Evros regional unit, Greece Thourios, a famous poem written by RigasFeraios Thouria, a village in Messenia, Greece This disambiguation page lists...
personally visited. The Oracles of Agathagelos was also later republished by RigasFeraios, promoting the revolutionary spirit of the subjugated Greeks, because...
dramatic expression in the intellectual and political activities of RigasFeraios. Feraios translated foreign authors and wrote revolutionary texts and poems...
several works by RigasFeraios. The newspaper's run lasted until 1797, when Georgios Markides Pouliou was arrested along with RigasFeraios for their publication...
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