Dimitrakis Deligiannis
Dimitrakis Deligiannis ( el, Δημητράκης Δεληγιάννης; 1783 – 1848) was a fighter of the Greek War of Independence of 1821 from Arcadia, Greece. Biography Dimitrakis Deligiannis was born in 1783 in Lagadia in Arcadia in the Peloponnese, and was the son of the important provost Ioannis Deligiannis who was killed before the revolution by the Ottoman authorities with the sultan's firman. He was a member of Filiki Eteria and at the beginning of the Greek revolution, he actively participated along with the rest of his brothers. He took part in the general massacre of the Ottoman inhabitants of Lagadia who had been disarmed a long time earlier by the forces of his brother Kanellos and in the expedition that led to the downfall of the strong Ottoman stronghold of Lalas. He was then actively involved in the decisive battle during the siege of Tripolitsa, the battle of Grana, and a few days later he proceeded with 500 men to occupy the village of Mantzagra, ...
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Greek War Of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829. The Greeks were later assisted by the British Empire, Bourbon Restoration in France, Kingdom of France, and the Russian Empire, while the Ottomans were aided by their North African vassals, particularly the eyalet of Egypt Eyalet, Egypt. The war led to the formation of modern Greece. The revolution is Celebration of the Greek Revolution, celebrated by Greeks around the world as Greek Independence Day, independence day on 25 March. Greece, with the exception of the Ionian Islands, came under Ottoman rule in the 15th century, in the decades before and after the fall of Constantinople. During the following centuries, there were sporadic but unsuccessful Ottoman Greece#Uprisings before 1821, Greek uprisings against Ottoman rule. In 1814, a secret organization called Filiki Et ...
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