TheApotheosisofAthanasiosDiakos (Greek: Αποθέωση του Αθανασίου Διάκου) is an oil painting by Konstantinos Parthenis created in 1933. The oil painting...
Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas or Grammatikos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας-Γραμματικός; 1788 – 24 April 1821) also known as Athanasios Diakos...
Athanasios or Thanasoulas Valtinos (Greek: Θανασούλας Βαλτινός) was a Greek revolutionary ofthe Greek War of Independence. He was born in 1801 or 1802...
one ofthe major figures ofthe Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy...
April 1821 to a contingent of Greek fighters under the command ofAthanasiosDiakos and Vasilis Bousgos, Hursid Pasha sent two of his most competent commanders...
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The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October (O. S. 8 October) 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–29), in Navarino Bay...
self-government since the fall ofthe last remnants ofthe Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in the mid-15th century. In 1807, the republic was ceded to Napoleon's...
The Evzones or Evzonoi (Greek: Εύζωνες, Εύζωνοι, pronounced [ˈevzones, ˈevzoni]) were several historical elite light infantry and mountain units of the...
throughout the Greek world. Those schools were operating by prestigious staff among them philologist Athanasios Psalidas, major contributor to the modern...
admiringly to the Souliots and registered their conflict with Ali pasha of Yanina as a national struggle for Greek independence. Athanasios Psalidas (1767–1829)...
of Alamana and had their commander, AthanasiosDiakos, impaled. Vrioni's advance was temporarily halted by Odysseas Androutsos who, with a handful of...
academics and the Greek government to emphasize the constitutional and democratic nature ofthe revolutionary regime prior to the establishment ofthe independent...
thanatos. The motto symbolized and still symbolizes the resolve ofthe people of Greece against tyranny and oppression. Part ofthe emblem ofthe Filiki...
politician; he was the commander of both the Egyptian and Ottoman armies and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and unrecognized Khedive of Egypt and Sudan...
The vast majority ofthe territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire. The period of Ottoman rule in Greece...
overthrow Turkish rule. The three founders were Nikolaos Skoufas from the Arta province, Emmanuil Xanthos from Patmos and Athanasios Tsakalov from Ioannina...
which resulted in the death ofAthanasiosDiakos. But the Ottoman advance was stopped at the inn of Gravia, under the leadership of Odysseas Androutsos...
Athanasios Tsakalov (Greek: Αθανάσιος Τσακάλωφ) was a member ofthe Filiki Eteria ("Friendly Company"), or ("Society of Friends") a Greek patriotic organization...
and shows some ofthe horror ofthe wartime destruction visited on the Island of Chios in the Chios massacre. A frieze-like display of suffering characters...
one ofthe most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe. Capodistrias' involvement in politics begun as a minister ofthe Septinsular...
as armatolos of Livadeia in eastern central Greece in 1816. In 1818 Androutsos became a member ofthe Filiki Eteria with AthanasiosDiakos, an organisation...
the first place in western Greece to join the uprising, on 20 May 1822, led by the town elders, such as Athanasios Razikotsikas. With the aid ofthe klepht...
personal intervention, he managed to save a handful of them. He then collaborated with AthanasiosDiakos and Dyovouniotis in order to halt Omer Vryonis from...
general and the pre-eminent leader ofthe Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire. The son of a klepht leader who fought the Ottomans...
enslavement, and flight of about four-fifths ofthe total population of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops, during the Greek War of Independence in...
Philhellenism ("the love of Greek culture") was an intellectual movement prominent mostly at the turn ofthe 19th century. It contributed to the sentiments...
naval commander, heroine ofthe Greek War of Independence in 1821, and considered perhaps the first woman to attain the rank of admiral. Bouboulina was...
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