Anagnostis Striftombolas ( Greek: Αναγνώστης Στριφτόμπολας; c. 1778–1821) was a Greek revolutionary leader.

Biography

He was born in about 1778 in

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, and was descended from

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. He was a schoolmaster in

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in 1800, he was educated with children's notes and learned the art of war especially on knowing how to use a knife. He was an irreconcilable enemy of the Turks and continuously to quarrel with them, one day, he killed a Turk. Movably, he fled to Zakynthos (then Zante) where he was enrolled into the British Army. He returned to Tripolitsa in 1818 as a bodyguard of

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, he became ill and Fotilas which he asked and once again returned to Zakynthos. He returned to the same city for the second time and exercised vocationally with a watchmaker but not for a long time. He went to

near Kalavryta, formed a strategic body of 15 men and battled at

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where he was killed on 14 April 1821.Levidi online

References

Sources

*''Peloponisii agonistes tou 1821, Nikitara apomnimonevmata'' (''Πελοποννήσιοι αγωνιστές του 1821, Νικηταρά απομνημονεύματα'' = ''Peloponnesian Revolutionary Leaders in 1821, Nikitaras Remembered''), Fotakos, Vergina publishers, Athens 1996 *''This article is translated and is based from the

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