The Ellinoglosso Xenodocheio ( el, Ελληνόγλωσσο Ξενοδοχείο, "Hellenophone Hotel", meaning "Greek-speaking Hotel"), was a secret organization established in Paris in 1814, whose purpose was to educate the Greeks and prepare the struggle against Ottoman

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. Two of its founders were the

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and the

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. The organization was a precursor of another organization, Filiki Eteria, of which

was a founding member and which succeeded in mobilizing Greeks against the Ottoman Empire culminating in the

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. Among the services of the organization to the Greek movement was the shipment of 40,000 weapons to Greeks in the

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in France, one notable of them being the

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. Αdministration and support also came from Phanariotes and prince Dimitrios Ypsilantis. The oath of Hellenoglosson Xenodochion was signed with the acronym ΦΕΔΑ, that stands for Φιλικός Ελληνικός Δεσμός Άλυτος ("Friendly Hellenic Indissoluble Bond").

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Bibliography

* Constantinidi-Bibicou H., 1953. « Les Origines du philhellénisme français », L’Hellénisme Contemporain, VII/3, pp. 248–265 * Tziatzios E.St., 1939. Le Macédonien Grégoire Zalikis et la société révolutionnaire “Hôtel Hellénophone”, III/1, pp. 68–76, et III/2-3, pp. 89–101. Organizations established in 1814 Organizations disestablished in 1821 Greek War of Independence Greek diaspora in Europe Secret societies in France Greek revolutionary organizations Revolutionary organizations against the Ottoman Empire {{Greece-hist-stub