Panagiotis Michanidis (

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: Παναγιώτης Μηχανίδης) was a leader and fighter of the Greek Revolution of 1821 from

Maroneia Maroneia ( el, Μαρώνεια) is a village and a former municipality in Rhodope regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Maroneia-Sapes, of which it is a muni ...

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Biography

Panagiotis Michanidis was from

.Tribute: The Greek Revolution of 1821. Thrace in the Revolution, Theofanis Malkidis, Macedonia, 24-25 March 2012
/ref> Before the revolution, he was a member of the

Filiki Etaireia Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends ( el, Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία ''or'' ) was a secret organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state. (''retr ...

, and had the rank of Apostle. He vigorously spread the idea of the Revolution and publicised the events in

Kalamata Kalamáta ( el, Καλαμάτα ) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia regi ...

. As a military man, he followed

Mavromichalis The Mavromichalis family ( el, Μαυρομιχάλης, , ) is a prominent clan from Mani Peninsula, which played a major role in modern Greek history. Origin According to the Maniot tradition, confirmed by the May 31, 1870 epitaph of Anastasio ...

. When he left Kalamata, Michanidis continued his work of transmitting the news. This, along with his way of writing it, acted as a morale boost for the revolutionaries.

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