Anastasios Manakis or Michaloglou ( el, Αναστάσιος Μανάκης-Μιχάλογλου; - 27 July 1864) was a Greek revolutionary of the

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Biography

Manakis was an Aromanian. He born in about 1790 in Epirus. He was from the Aromanian village of Anilio but at an early age moved to

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

and worked as an animal merchant. In 1818 he was initiated into the Filiki Eteria. In 1820,

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commissioned him to either free or murder Aristeidis Papas, who had been sent to

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to encourage the Serbs to rise up against the

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and held secret documents of the Filiki Etairia. His mission failed. After the outbreak of the revolution in the

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in 1821, he attacked, along with Diamantis Serdaris and Ioannis Solomontas against Jovan Rogobeci, killing him. Together with Giorgakis Olympios, they saved the remaining Sacred Band revolutionaries after the Battle of Drăgășani. Subsequently, he was besieged by the Ottomans. Following the forced submission of other chieftains, he escaped in disguise to the

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. Although he was jailed for violating Austrian neutrality, he managed to escape and flee to the Peloponnese in 1825. He fought in the

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and in the Third Siege of Missolonghi. He then fled to

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, returning to Greece in 1826 where he served under Ioannis Kolettis. After the liberation, he founded schools and libraries in

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and the provinces, and supplied the police with uniforms and guns in Athens and

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. In 1844 he became consul of

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in Belgrade until 1849. He died in 1864.

References

Manakis, Anastasios

Manakis Anastasios

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manakis, Anastasios 1790 births 1864 deaths 19th-century Greek politicians Aromanian politicians People from Metsovo Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire Greek people of the Greek War of Independence Aromanian military personnel Prisoners and detainees of Austria Year of birth uncertain Greek diplomats Greece–Serbia relations Members of the Filiki Eteria Greek people of Aromanian descent