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Konstantis Petimezas
Konstantinos Petimezas (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Πετιμεζάς) (c. 1764–1824) was a Greece, Greek revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence and a soldier. He was born in about 1764 in Kalavryta, Soudena near Kalavryta. He had a brother Anagnostis Petimezas, Anagnostis and was descended from the historic Petmezades family. He left after his father was assassinated in 1804 to Zakynthos and became a Russian army officer. He entered the Filiki Etaireia and took part of the Siege of Tripoli, Battle of Levidi, Battle of Nauplia (1822), Battle of Nafplio, and the Siege of Patras (1821), Siege of Patras. He took part in the national council of Astros, Greece, Astros. In the civil war, he teamed up with Theodoros Kolokotronis. He died in 1824. References *''Fotakou apomnimonevmata'' (''Φωτάκου απομνημονεύματα''), Vergina (publisher), Vergina publishers, 1996 in literature, 1996 {{DEFAULTSORT:Petimezas Konstantinos 1760s birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalavryta
Kalavryta ( el, Καλάβρυτα) is a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos, south of Aigio, southeast of Patras and northwest of Tripoli. Notable mountains in the municipality are Mount Erymanthos in the west and Aroania or Chelmos in the southeast. Kalavryta is the southern terminus of the Diakopto-Kalavryta rack railway, built by Italian engineers between 1885 and 1895. History Kalavryta is built near the ancient city of Cynaetha. During the late Middle Ages, the town was the centre of the Barony of Kalavryta within the Frankish Principality of Achaea, until it was reconquered by the Byzantines in the 1270s. After that it remained under Byzantine control until the fall of the Despotate of the Morea to the Ottoman Turks in 1460. With the exception of a 30-year interlude of Venetian control, the town remained under Turkish rule until the outbreak of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
