The Greek War of Independence in Macedonia - 1821

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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

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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

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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.

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Secondary School Neo Souli Serres

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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.

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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.