The Greek War of Independence in Macedonia - 1821

[Ptolemy]

George Finlay, "History of the Greek Revolution", London, 1971

The Greek War of Independence in Macedonia

"In no part of Greece were the facilities for commencing the Revolution, or for defending the national independence, greater than in the peninsula to
east of the Gulf of Thessalonica, called anciently Chalcidice. The population was almost entirely of the Greek race, and its villages enjoyed the title of Free Townships (Eleutherokhoria), on account of their many privileges."

"The submission of Mount Athos enabled Aboulabad to turn his attention to the Greek population in the mountains between the mouths of the Haliacmon and the Axius. Zaphiraki, the primate of Niaousta, was the most infuential Greek in this district. He was a man of considerable wealth; he had opposed Ali Pasha in intrigue, and held his ground...He now invited Gatsos and Karatassos, the captains of Armatoli at Vodhena and Verria, to meet him. These three chiefs proclaimed the Revolution....

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As early as September of 1828, count Ioannis Kapodistrias requested of the representatives of the European Powers at the conference of Poros that the frontiers of the Greek State (then in the process of being created) should extend from the Thermaic Gulf in Macedonia to Heimmara in modern-day Albania, and include the districts which had most visibly joined the revolt.

That this was not sanctioned reflects little more than military and diplomatic conditions at the time, and surely not Greekness and efforts on the side of the locals. Ignorance of such aspects of Macedonian history is a poor excuse for certain people's pronouncements that the Greek claims to Macedonia are a new invention, but in the last week or so we have witnessed this latest development.

Compare to George Finley's old history (mind you: written several decades prior to the Balkan Wars and the liberation of Macedonia), concerning the 1821 events in Macedonia:

"In no part of Greece were the facilities for commencing the Revolution, or for defending the national independence, great than in the peninsula to the east of the Gulf of Thessalonica, called anciently Chalcidice. The population was almost entirely of the Greek race, and its villages enjoyed the title of the Free Townships..."
<History of the Greek revolution, 1971 reprint, p.202>

In any case... append a simple and dry account of the revolutionary events in Macedonia as an introduction for the benefit of those who remake the past (sparing the reader most of the sickening bloody descriptions):

The revolt 'typically' started on March 1821; with Emmanuel Papas from Serres (one of the main figures, who -though- lacked a military background) making provisions and transporting them to Mt.Athos at the orders of prince Alexandros Ipsilantis (leader, at the time, of the Greek Revolution).
At Papas' request for naval support, Psara (an island of the N.Aegean) responded and provided the insurgents with sea-coverage. On the news of the Psarian landing, there were Turkish retaliations in Papas' hometown and Greek shops were sacked and Greek traders along with the metropolitan bishop were imprisoned. In Thessaloniki, too, governor Yusuf Bey, took hostages from the Greek community (civic and religious). Upon learning that Polygyros had joined the revolt, that Ottoman detachments were annihilated and the insurection was spreading in the Chalkidiki and villages of Langadas, he executed several of them.

Subsequently, he proceeded with a more massive slaughter of several thousands Thessalonian Greeks in the cathedral and market area. In his history D.Dankin (1972) says that it was to take over half a century for the Greeks of the city to recover from the blow.

Nevertheless, the revolt gained ground and was proclaimed at the 'protaton' of Karyes on May, in the district of Olympos, and was joined by Thasos.
Subsequently the insurgents cut communications between Thrace and the south, and attempted to prevent Hadji Mehmet Bayram Pasha from transferring forces from E.Macedonia to S.Greece: Although delaying him, were defeated.

On late October a general Ottoman offensive lead by the new Pasha of Thessaloniki, Mehmet Emin, scored another crashing Ottoman victory at Kassandra. Papas and the survivors escaped on board the Psarian fleet to join the Peloponnesians, though the protagonist died en route. Sithonia, mt.Athos and Thasos surrender on terms.

In the meanwhile, the insurrection west of the Thermaic Gulf mangaged to spread from Olympos to Bermion and Pieria. It was conducted by Anastasios Karatasos from the district of Beroia, Angelos Gatsos from the vicinity of Edessa, Zaferakis Logothetis from Naousa, and was also assisted by the Psarian naval force.

On March of 1822, the insurgents were joined by more boats from Psara and Gregory Salas, who had been appointed commander-in-chief of the campaign in Macedonia, and German philhellenes. These too, Mehmet Emin defeated at Kolindros (near Methoni); then another detachment under captain Diamantis at Kastania (inland, on the other end of the Pierian mountains) and after pushing them eastwards towards the sea, he finally dispersed them at Milia on Easter Sunday.

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Further north, in the vicinity of Naousa, the detachment of Karatasos, some 5,000 strong, recorded a victory, but was checked by the arrival of fresh Ottoman reinforcements, and then by Mehmet Emin himself who appeared with 20,000 regulars and irregulars. Failing to get the insurgents to surrender Mehmet Emin launched a number of attacks pushed them back and finally took their base of operations itself, the town of Naousa, on April. (The expeditionary force sent from south Greece by prince Demetrios Ipsilants arrived too late to assist Naousa and was subsequently defeated.)

Reprisals and executions ensued, and women are reported to have flung themselves over the Arapitsa waterfall to avoid dishonor and being sold in slavery. Those who broke through the siege fall back in Kozani, Siatista
and Aspropotamos, or were carried by the Psarian fleet to the N.Aegean islands. Nikolaos Kasomoulis from Serres, who was present, later wrote of
the events in his "Military Memoirs from the Revolution of the Hellenes 1821-1833" (Athens, 1839).

For all intents and purposes the revolt in Macedonia was over. It can be viewed to have produced a mix of advantages and disadvantages to the Greek side:

- Raising public opinion in Europe against the Turks through reports of atrocities; and distracting, delaying or pinning down Ottoman forces for months (and relieving the southerners who would otherwise have to withstand large-scale enemy offensives) early on.

- The human casualties during the revolt in Macedonia and the reprisals due to the continuation of the liberation struggle elsewhere for a number of years, adversely affected the Greek demographic presence in Macedonia. This was reinforced by the replacement of the groups that were forced to migrate, by other elements which were deemed as more reliable by the Ottomans.

Since the revolution had laid roots in S.Greece and the Aegean, surviving Macedonian warriors joined the Islanders, Rumeliots and Peloponnesians. The Olympian warriors for example, are found to put resistance to the Ottomans in the course of the liberation struggle, at Psara and also at Mesologgi. Those who had assembled in the islands of the northern Sporades became active in sea, and governor Ioannis Kapodistrias had them transferer to Eleusis and incorporated in the Greek army.

Other Macedonian refugees also settled in the new state and in one case Konstantinos Bellios from Western Macedonia organized the collection of funds and raised the necessary capital to establish a settlement named "Nea Pella", near Atalanti, on the northern border of the new state.

It was among these Macedonians that Tsamis Karatasos (son of the above mentioned veteran of the War of Independence) would play a leading role in organizing aiming to the liberation of their homeland.

[akritas]

I want also to add a quote from Fotakos Crysanthos (secretary of the Great Greek Leader Theodoros Kolokotronis) from his book Lifes:
The eminent kapetan Gatsos, in the arms from birth and companion of Olympus and their soldiers Macedonians fought to the Vasilika and Dervenakia bravely and Pelloponisians they were thanked a lot because they saw men of having zeal’s and big nationalism "

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Macedonia, while under the rule of the Ottoman empire, was mainly inhabited by Greeks, Turks and Bulgars. There was also a significant Jewish population in the city of Thessaloniki most of whom arrived there from Spain in the late 15th century.

Macedonians [to mean only the Greek-nationality population of Macedonia] expected to be liberated and join the then newly founded Greek state as a compensation for their sacrifices and contributions to the (Greek) War of Independence. They were led in this effort by the enthusiastic but inexperienced leadership of Emmanuel Pappas, a member of Phillike Etaereia.

The Macedonians of Chalcidice revolted in May 1821 and for a brief moment threatened to throw the Turks out of the city of Thessaloniki. Due to their inexperience they were easily suppressed by the Turks by November 1821. The countryside was ravaged and the Greek population of Thessaloniki was massacred and forced to move out of the city.

The second round of the revolt began in February 1822 when the kleftae and armatoloi of mountains Olympos and Vermion along with the inhabitants of the city of Naoussa declared that city free (of the Ottoman rule). The Turks deployed troops brought to Greece from Asia Minor, and by April the revolt was subdued. Naoussa was destroyed, the men were killed, and the women and children were taken as slaves. After this, many Macedonian fighters fled to Southern Greece to continue fighting the Turks alongside the Peloponnesians and the other Greeks.

The failure of the Macedonian revolt is mainly attributable to the inexperience of the rebels and the proximity of the area to Constantinople. Although the revolt failed, it provided great help to the rebels of Southern Greece because it tied a number of Turkish forces in Macedonia. The price paid by the Macedonians was heavy. The previously flourishing greek community of Thessaloniki was destroyed and the Greek population of the city was reduced by around 70%. The Jews took over the leading role among the communities residing in the city.


Once more in their long history, Macedonians sacrificed them- selves for the common good of all Greeks.

[akritas]

http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/media/original/a321a.jpg

The Greek War of Independence in Macedonia
Map showing the battles of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia, 1821-1822.

Although prominent armatoles and prelates from Macedonia (Yeorgakis Olympios; Ioannis Farmakis; Chrysanthos, the metropolitan of Serres) had been initiated prior to 1820 into the activities of the 'Philiki Etaireia', preparations for the revolution were nonetheless inadequate in the region, particularly in western Macedonia.

There, the regular passage of Turkish troops engaged in besieging Ali Pasha in Epirus and the absence in the spring of 1821 of most of the local leaders (they had grouped around Alexandros Ypsilantis in the Danubian principalities) limited the chances of success. The weight of the rebellion fell upon Emmanouil Pappas, an entrepreneur from Serres and a fervent patriot, who was, however, inexperienced in military matters.

The uprising, which finally erupted in May 1821 on Mount Athos, was quenched by a wave of butchery and pillage that same autumn, while harsh penalties were imposed on the towns, especially Thessaloniki.

A second rebellion on Olympos and Vermion in the spring of 1822 met with the same fate, despite the enlistment of several experienced clefts, armatoles and the local notables.

The failure of the Revolution of 1821-1822 in northern Greece was a milestone in the history of Macedonia. For more than 50 years social developments there were severed from those of southern Greece, where a new nation was being built, in theory and in reality.

The Greek political leadership considered Macedonia an indisputable part of their historic heritage. In practice, however, they gave priority to backing the burgeoning liberation movements in the Ottoman provinces of Thessaly and Epirus, which were closer to the Greek kingdom, and to Crete. Nevertheless, the Macedonian refugees and fighters who had sought sanctuary in Athens never ceased to exert pressure to change the fate of their own homeland.

In Macedonia itself, at least until the reforms of 1856 (Hatt-i-Humayun) (javascript:openHotword('EA.3.html');), society remained rooted in tradition, maintaining closer ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople than with the new Greek state. But for the first time the economy was receptive to serious challenges to join the international market. And the rural population was becoming denser, as waves of refugees descended upon the hinterland from all directions.

source:

http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/A3.2.html

[akritas]

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Emmanuel Papas


The organized operations of the Greek revolutionaries in Halkidiki did not last more than one month. Emmanouil Pappas had the support of the monks of Athos and the inhabitants of Kassandra, Polygyros and the Mademohoria. The element of surprise, however, had definitely been lost, since the operations started in May, nearly two months after the outbreak of the revolution in the Peloponnese (25 March 1821).

Nevertheless, by early June the rebels had succeeded in reaching the outskirts of Thessaloniki. Their triumph was all too brief, however, for they had to contend with the army commanded by the able Bayram Pasha (and, later, the forces of the fearsome Mehmed Emin Pasha) with virtually no backing from the chieftains of Olympos and western Macedonia.

The advance quickly turned into a series of retreats and was effectively squashed with the Kassandra disaster (October 1821) and Emmanouil Pappas' flight to Hydra (November 1821). A large number of refugees escaped to the Northern Sporades islands at that time.

[akritas]

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Tasos Karatasos

With the exception of the area around Mount Olympos, where the armed chieftains had a long experience in staging uprisings, western Macedonia did not possess the manpower and essential supplies that would have guaranteed a successful revolution.

The efforts of Nikolaos Kasomoulis, the local leader and a member of the 'Philiki Etaireia', to find help in southern Greece were of little consequence. The armatoles of Olympos, with no organization whatsoever, along with a token force which had finally arrived from southern Greece, fought for a mere few weeks (from late March to early April 1822). Shortly afterwards, they joined up with the Greek revolutionaries who had already mounted an uprising in Naousa, having taken up battle positions on 19 February.

Despite the town's reserves of arms and ammunition and despite the efforts of the Naousan notable Zafyrakis Theodosiou and the kapetans Tasos Karatasos and Angelis Gatsos, Naousa was captured on 13 April by Mehmed Emin Pasha. Two thousand Christians were slaughtered, while most of the surviving rebel leaders left to continue the fight in southern Greece.

source for the last two therads:
www.macedonia-heritage.gr (http://www.macedonia-heritage.gr)

[Tsontos]

During the Greek war of independence uprisings occured in many territories which were not able to sustain the insurrections against Ottoman rule as the Greeks in the Peloponesse were able to who turned that part of Greece into a stronghold.

Uprisinings occured in Crete, Cyprus and Macedonia. Of course the Yugoslav and Skopjian historians would later clumsily attempt to portray these Greek rebels as "Macedonian" as well as their insurrection as "Macedonian" in the context of the national liberation movements of the Slavs for Macedonia.

Skopjian textbook portraying the insurrection as 'Macedonian'.

(Grade 9 History, general stream. Skopje 1992, page 88 and History VII, 2nd edition, Skopje 1993, page 76).

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would Akritas care to add any sources?:read: skops please:read:

[akritas]

Skopjans can wrote anything that they want but nobody beleive them anymore. Either and the own people.
As about the rebelion in Vermion Naousas.

[akritas]

More informations as about the Naoussa Revolt

In February 1822 the Naousaians with the chieftains Karatasos, Gatsos and the prokritos Zafejrakis captured the Turkish guard of Naoussa and declared the revolution at the Turks. The rebels in deed overcame the Turkish army of Kehaya Bey that had 4000 troops in the battle near in the monastery of Divras. It was a shocking battle. For first time constituted Turkish army was pondered over with Greek troops and shattered itself.

However Thessalonica Passas Empou Loympout with 10.000 men began to revenge the defeat of Kehaya Bey The battles round the Naoussa were shocking, until the city fell on 10 April 1822 and the Turks destroyed the city entirely. The last defenders were killed in the tower of Zafejrakis and women-children they preferred to fall from Arapitsas cascade in the current space of sacrifice than to they fall in the hands of Turks. For this sacrifice the Naoussa was nominated later heroin city by in the Mesologgi, the Soyli and the Arkadi

[HellenicPride]

The Struggle for Macedonian Freedom


The contribution of the Greek Macedonians to the liberation of Greece from Turkish domination is very important, but not too well known. Because during the time of 1860-1872 Macedonian was still enslaved, there was no historical records of the struggles of the Macedonians and for this reason , this Macedonian contributions to Hellenism is not sufficiently mentioned in the first editions of The History of the Greek Nation. After the liberation of Macedonia in 1912-1913, and particularly during the last decades, modern historians are gathering new information from the still un translated Turkish records, from which the great contribution of the Macedonians in the Greek War of Liberation becomes apparent.

The Greeks of Macedonia have shed a lot of blood and contributed a great deal of money to help shake off the Turkish hold, and many centers of revolt wee organized before and after the year of Greek Revolution 1821, reaching a peak during the revolution of Chalkidiki and the holocaust of Naousa. The first revolt of the Macedonians occurred in 1495, when they were informed that the king of France would march against Constatinople. The campaign was cancelled and the Macedonians were severely punished. In 1571, after the defeat of the Turkish navy in Naupactus, a new uprising took place which suppressed. At that time there appeared on the mountains of Macedonia, such as Olympus and Pieria and also on Pindus, the klephts and guerrillas who became better known during the war of independence, in places such as Siastista, Grevena, Kozani, ect. In 1796, Ali Pasha moved against the rebels but was finally defeated. A second attempt in the same year also failed. In 1804 he managed to win and capture Naousa. Nicotsaras from Western Macedonia escaped and began a naval struggle, returning and taking Siderocastro and Neurokopi. In 1808 the Macedonians revolted again. But the main and most effective contributions of the Macedonians to the Greek war of liberation of 1821, were the insurrections of Vermion, Pieria and Plympus and the revolutions of Chalkidiki and Naousa.

Chalkidiki which revolted under the command of Emmanuel Papas from Serres, was severely punished for it, as it appears from Turkish records, about 15,000 Greeks were slaughtered or hanged, 68 towns and villages were completely burned and 17 villages partly burned. In addition, 58 properties belonging to monasteries of Ayion Oros were destroyed.

The fight of Naousa which began in 1795 against the combined forces of Turks and Albanians of Ali Pasha, the first part of which lasted till 1804, constitutes a good example. On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, 19 of February 1822, in the church of Saint Demetrios of Nasousa, the banner of revolt was raised, just as it had happened about a year earlier in the monastery of Ayia Lavra in the Peloponnese. After a victory against the Turks in Verroia, about 5,000 warriors were assembled in Naousa under the Karatsoi, Yiannakis and Tsamis, and Zafeirakis and Gatsos, in order to defend themselves against the Turkish forces of Embu Lumbut Pasha, that included 12,000 men, powerful artillery, large reserves and two heavy guns normally used for the defense of fortifications. The heroic fighters of Nasousa resisted for 27 days, but on the 18th of April 1822 the defense broke, and the Turks entered the city shouting wildly, and they began to slaughter, burn and plunder with unprecedented savagery. One group of fighters broke through the Turkish lines and escaped, just as at Mesolongi. Another small group, after defending itself in Saint Nicolas, they set fire to the powder magazine and were blown up together with the Turks, just as at Kouggi years later. Some Nasoua women, when they were surrounded by the Turks, threw their children down a chasm and themselves into the River Arapitsa, preferring death to surrender and thus repeating the sacrifice of Zalongos. Slaughter and hangings followed, women and children were sold to slavery and 120 towns and villages were burned.

No other city of continental Greece save for Mesolongi had the tragic fate of Naousa, which for this reason has been named a heroic city through a special edict, and its struggle is annually celebrated. The Macedonian area and especially Chalkidiki, Vermion, Olympus were the centres of resistance for about 15 months, so the first bastion of the Greek nation struggling to regain its freedom was then Macedonia.


Source located at http://helleniclife.net/History%20of%20Macedonia.htm

Original author Nicolaos K. Martis The falsification of Macedonian History

[Tsontos]

more on Pappas

He was born at 1773 in Dovista [today Em.Papa] of Serres. He established himself in commerce at a very young age in Serres. He soon he extended his activities in large cities of Central Europe. He married Afentra[Fedra]and had eleven children.
Because of his financial status, he obtained influence in Serres among Christians and Ottomans as well which he used to protect the enslaved Greeks from the excesses of Turkish rule. In one of his business journeys to Constantinople, he joined the Filiki Etairia and in 1819 he was elected chief cashier. The Etairia then ordered him to organize the revolution in East Makedonia, Chalkidiki, Mount Athos and Thessaloniki; earning the name ‘Defender of Makedonia’. In the spring of 1821, he formed and equipped armed bands, at his own expense, with men from Serres and Dovista. As leader of his own band, he went to Mount Athos[Monastery of Esfigmenos]where the situation is favorable declaring the revolution at the monastery and the revolutionists have many succecces in summer of 1821. In Serres, Turks imprison his wife and five of his children and confiscate his property.The news for the revolutionists are not pleasant by this stage. Turks are organized and having numerous reinforcements from Thessaloniki restricting the revolution to the peninsula of Chalkidiki.The monks capitulate and Em.Papas leaves Mount Athos, in order not to give himself to Turks. Reinforcements by South Greece do not arrive and in November of 1821, Kassandra-which was the last stronghold of the revolutionists-was captured. Em.Papas leaves Chalkidiki by Hatzi-Visviki’s,who was from Hydra, sailboat in order to continue the fights in South Greece.The hardships and the grief because of the failure of revolution bended Em.Papas’ health and he died in 5-12-1821 from heart problems. He was buried in Hydra with honors. Em.Pappas sacrificed everything for the revolution: money,family,5 of 8 sons,who died in the fighting,and finally his life. Despite his wealth he did not hesitate to abandon his riches and his comforts in order to serve his nation, paying a great price. In 1865 he awarded by the honor of colonel. Today,his bust decorates Em.Papas’ statues are also in his home town, Serres, aswell as in Thessaloniki, Kassandra and in Dafni. His village, Dovista, changed its name to Em.Papas in 1931. The new municipality, after the Kapodistrias program since 1997 is named Emmanuel Pappas as well.

other links:

Serres - Emmanouel Papas (http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~panos/serres/papas.html)

EMMANUEL PAPAS (http://users.hol.gr/~dovista/hero1.htm)

Secondary School Neo Souli Serres (http://gym-n-souliou.ser.sch.gr/prosopikotites/papas_en.htm)

EMMANOUEL PAPAS (http://users.hol.gr/~dovista/papas1.htm)

[Ptolemy]

Officers

1. Aggelos Ioannis from Macedonia. He served as Oplarhigos.

2. Aggelopoulos Demetrios from Naousa, Macedonia

3. Aggelopoulos Konstantinos from Macedonia.

4. Adam Georgios from Kassandra.

5. Adam Hatzi Polychronis from Macedonia.

6. Anastasiou Papadimitris from Kassandreia. He was murdered in 1824.

7. Anastasiou Christos from Thessalonike, Macedonia

8. Antoniou Garoufallos from Cassandra

9. Basileiou Apostolaras from Macedonia. He was a major.

10. Berroios Emmanouel from Macedonia. He was a captain.

11. Berroios Nanos from Macedonia.

12. Vlahavas Nikolaos from Olympos, Macedonia. He died fighting as a colonel.

13. Vlahomichelis Athanasios from Olympos, Macedonia

14. Gatzas Aggelos from Macedonia. He was a colonel.

15. Gatzas Demetrios from Macedonia. He was a lieutenant-general.

16. Germanis Ioannis from Macedonia.

17. Gerokaratasios Anastasios from Macedonia. He was a Oplarhigos.

18. Georgiou Manolis from Macedonia.

19. Grevenitis Harisis Tziogas from Grevena, Macedonia.

20. Damianovich Soterios from Macedonia

21. Deliargiris Georgios from Olympos, Macedonia. He was wounded during fighting.

22. Dimou Stolios from Macedonia.

23. Dombrovoskos Theodoros from Macedonia

24. Doubiotis Basileios from Macedonia. He was a chiliarch.

25. Doubiotis Konstantinos from Macedonia. He was an armatolos prior to the war of independence and afterwards he became a general.

26. Doubiotis D. Nikolaos from Nea Pelli Atalantis.

27. Emmanouel Ioannis from Macedonia.

28. Zakos Ioannis from Macedonia. Wounded during the war.

29. Zakos Theodoros from Macedonia.

30. Zanos P. Dionysios from Macedonia. He was in the sacred band.

31. Zachilas Georgios from Olympos, Macedonia.

32. Theodoropoulos Stefanos from Olympos, Macedonia

33. Ioannou Michael from Macedonia

34. Ioannou Nikolaos from Macedonia

35. Ioannou Nikolaos from Macedonia

36. Karamitsos Demetrios from Grevena.

37. Karamisirlis Georgios from Macedonia

38. Karabornakos Gregorios from Macedonia

39. Karabousnakis D. Gregorios from Macedonia. Later he moved to Athens.

40. Karatassios Tzamis Demetrios from Macedonia. He was a major.

41. Karitsis Anastasios from Kastoria, Macedonia

42. Kassandrianos N. Georgios from Cassandra, Macedonia. He was killed during the destruction of Psara.

43. Kassandrinos Adam Lampros from Cassandra, Macedonia.

44. Katzaros Demetrios from Macedonia

45. Kissavos Basileios from Olympos, Macedonia

46. Kokkaliotis Demetrios from Macedonia.

47. Kortzalis Symeon from Macedonia. Later he moved to Nauplio

48. Kiparissis Ananias from Macedonia

49. Kirikopoulos Berris from Macedonia. He died fighting for Greece.

50. Lazos Markos from Olympos, Macedonia

51. Lazou L. Tolias from Olympos, Macedonia

52 Lazou Tolios from Macedonia. He was an Oplarhigos

53. Lassanis Georgios from Macedonia

54. Liakopoulos Mitros from Olympos, Macedonia. He was killed in the battle of Theba.

55. Liakopoulos Nikolaos from Olympos, Macedonia.

56 Liapis Georgios from Macedonia

57. Makris Kostas from Macedonia

58. Malotzos Emmanuel from Olympos, Macedonia

59. Michael Theochares from Macedonia

60. Michalopoulos Anastasios from Macedonia

61. Molotsos Nikolaos from Olympos, acedonia

62. Mpinos Kostas from Olympos Macedonia

63. Mpiziotis Anagnostis from Olympos, Macedonia

64. Mpiziotis Goulios from Macedonia

65. Mpourmpoutziotis Nikolaos from Macedonia. He was a chiliarch.

66. Nikolaides Christos from Macedonia.

67. Nikolaou Diamantis from Macedonia.

68. Nikolaou Stergios from Macedonia

69. Olympios Georgios from Macedonia. He was commander in chief of the Danube army. He was blown up along with 2000 of his enemies in 27 Sep. 1821.

70. Olympios Goulas from Olympos, Macedonia. He was killed in Psara in 1824.

71. Olympios N. Diamantis from Macedonia.

72.Olympios Nikolaou kostas from Olympos, Macedonia

73. Olympios Nikolaou Dimos from Olympos, Macedonia

74. Panagiotou Dimos from Kastoria, Macedonia

75. Pappas Em. Athanasios from Macedonia

76. Pappas Emmanuel from Macedonia. He was commander in chief in Cassandra.

77. Pappas Em. Konstantinos from Macedonia

78. Pappas Ioannis from Macedonia

79. Pappas Nikolaos from Macedonia

80. Pappadakis Zisimos from Macedonia

81. Paraskis Athanasios from Olympos, Macedonia

82. Parvalis Gregorios from Serrai, Macedonia

83. Perraivos Stergios from Olympos, Macedonia

84. Pericles Iakovos from Olympos, Macedonia

85. Pitzavas Anagnostis from Olympos, Macedonia

86. Razelos Petros from Macedonia

87. Rezis Eustathios from Macedonia

88. Sarafianos Athanasios from Macedonia

89. Siatisteus Georgios Anastasios from Macedonia

90. Stauropoulos Georgios from Macedonia

91. Steloudis N. Ioannis from Macedonia

92. Stergiou Aggelis from Macedonia

93. Syropoulos Athanasios from Macedonia

94. Syropoulos G. Ioannis from Macedonia

95. Syropoulos G. Melios from Macedonia

96. Tzaras Panagiotis from Macedonia

97. Tourlidis Zacharias from Macedonia.

98. Tsatsaronis Ioannis from Macedonia. He died during the destruction of Psara.

99. Filippou D. Christos from thessalonike, Macedonia

100. Xalkiotis Athanasios from Macedonia

101. Stageiritis Nikolaos from Macedonia

102. Xeimentos Anastasios from Macedonia

103. Xeimentos Ioannis from Macedonia. He was a captain.

*Note that non-commisioned officers are not part of the list.

[Demetrius Doukas]

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[Bardas]

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[Andrew]

Does anyone ever heard of a kleft named Zisis Gidiotis (Ζήσης Γιδιώτης) ?
He is from my hometown Gidas (modern day Alexandreia) in the eastern Emathia plain.