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17-582: Karaiskakis was a Sarakatsani . His father was the armatolos of the Valtos district, Dimitris Iskos or Karaiskos , his mother Zoe Dimiski (from Arta, Greece, who was also the niece of a local monastery abbot) and cousin of Gogos Bakolas , captain of the armatoliki of Radovitsi. There is some debate regarding the birthplace of Karaiskakis. Historians have generally put it either at a monastery in Skoulikaria in Epirus or

34-651: A 3,000-strong detachment  [ el ] that tried to cross the Agrafa area at the pass of Agios Vlasios. When Mustafa Pasha Bushatli , the Pasha of Scutari , arrived at Larissa in 1823, he ordered Karaiskakis to come before him and reaffirm his loyalty in person, rather than through a representative as was usual. Instead, Karaiskakis although heavily ill, left Agrafa with about 300 men and made for Prousos Monastery . There he stayed to recuperate, while his men joined Markos Botsaris ' Souliotes , and eventually fought with them in

51-608: A cave near the village of Mavrommati in Thessaly . A committee set up by the Ministry of the Interior in 1927 to resolve the issue concluded that Mavrommati was his birthplace. Nevertheless, in 1997, as part of the Kapodistrias reform , it was decided to give the name "Georgios Karaiskakis" to the newly established municipality of which Skoulikaria belongs to. In 2005, by presidential decree,

68-631: A few of them found their target. On 17 November, Ottoman food supplies were seized by 250 Souliotes under command of Kitsos Tzavelas . Soon, inside the Albanian camp, clashes between Ghegs and Mirdites occurred due to the lack of food. Meanwhile rumors arrived that the Ottoman campaign in Eastern Central Greece had failed and damaged the morale of those laying siege. As a result of food shortages and disease, on 20 November Mustafa Pasha lifted

85-456: A public holiday of local importance was officially established in Skoulikaria in honor of Karaiskakis, further intensifying the controversy regarding his birthplace. At a very early age he became a klepht in the service of Katsantonis , a famous local Agrafiote brigand captain. He rose quickly through the ranks, eventually becoming a protopalikaro , or lieutenant. At the age of fifteen he

102-559: The Battle of Karpenisi . As his health did not improve, Karaiskakis left for Ithaca , then ruled by the British , to consult with local physicians. In his absence, Yannakis Rangos declared himself as leader of Karaiskakis' men. Karaiskakis' reputation grew during the middle and latter stages of the war. He helped lift the second siege of Missolonghi in 1823, and did his best to save the town from its third siege in 1826. That same year (1826), he

119-512: The Ottomans (1820-22), but after his defeat and death, Karaiskakis fled to Vonitsa . In July 1821 he joined the Greek rebels in the Battle of Komboti  [ el ] against Pliasa Ismail Pasha, but he soon left to pursue his long-held ambition of seizing the armatolik of Agrafa , then held by the family of Ioannis Boukouvalas . Karaiskakis gathered supporters from Valtos and other areas, and

136-457: The city of Trikala to Karpenisi , where a first Greek attempt to stop his advance resulted in the Battle of Karpenisi . During this battle, the Albanian casualties were 1,000 troops, but the Greeks lost their commander, Markos Botsaris . The second unsuccessful Greek attempt to stop Mustafa at Mount Kaliakouda, on 29 August 1823, resulted in 200 Greek casualties. On 17 September the Albanian army

153-493: The failed attempt to raise the siege of Athens and later also participated in the massacre of the Ottoman garrison stationed in the convent of Saint Spyridon in Piraeus . He was killed in action on his Greek name day, 23 April 1827, after being fatally wounded by a rifle bullet during the Battle of Phaleron . He was buried in the church of Saint Dimitrios on the island of Salamis , according to his expressed desire to be buried on

170-702: The island. King Otto of Greece posthumously conferred Karaiskakis the Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer . Karaiskakis was famous among the fighters of the revolution for his tirade manner of speaking. Karaiskaki Stadium in Neo Faliro , Piraeus is named after him as he was mortally wounded in the area. Dionysis Savvopoulos wrote both the music and lyrics to the popular Greek song "Ode to Georgios Karaiskakis" ( Greek : "Ωδή στο Γεώργιο Καραϊσκάκη" ). Savvopoulos wrote

187-455: The siege, withdrew and retreated to modern-day North Albania. The siege had taken place in early winter, so its premature end was inevitable. Missolonghi remained under Greek control. Its resistance achieved wider fame when Lord Byron arrived there, dying in the town of fever in April 1824. The city was besieged for a third and final time , resisting both Ottoman and Egyptian armies for almost

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204-962: The song for Che Guevara , but he chose this title to pass the censorship of the Greek military junta . Karaiskakis was married to Engolpia Skylodimou, and had four children: daughters Pinelopi and Eleni, and sons Spyridon and Dimitrios. Sarakatsani Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 495073007 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:48:04 GMT Second siege of Missolonghi [REDACTED] First Hellenic Republic [REDACTED] Ottoman Empire 1822–1824 Greek civil wars of 1824–1825 Egyptian intervention (1825–1826) Great powers intervention (1827–1829) The Second Siege of Missolonghi

221-611: Was appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek revolutionary forces in Rumeli , achieving mixed results: while failing to cooperate effectively with other leaders of the independence movement or with the foreign sympathizers fighting alongside the Greeks, he gained some military successes against the Ottomans . His most famous victory was at the battle of Arachova , where his forces crushed a force of Turkish and Albanian troops under Mustafa Bey and Kehaya Bey. In 1827, Karaiskakis participated in

238-439: Was captured by the troops of the Albanian ruler Ali Pasha and imprisoned at Ioannina , where he learned Albanian. Ali Pasha, impressed by Karaiskakis' courage and intelligence, released him from prison and had him serve as a member of his personal bodyguards. During his service under Ali Pasha, he fought against another Ottoman warlord, Osman Pazvantoğlu , in 1798. Karaiskakis served in the army of Ali Pasha in his war against

255-481: Was joined by Yannakis Rangos . In this way, he was able to take over Agrafa and was recognized as holder of the armatolik not only by the local captains, but also by the Ottoman authorities, who were too busy with suppressing the Greek uprising in the Morea ( Peloponnese ). Despite his recognition by the Ottomans, he attacked the Ottoman army retreating from the failed first siege of Missolonghi in early 1823, defeating

272-464: Was joined by Omer Vrioni and his troops. The two pashas decided to cooperate and siege Missolonghi and Aitoliko, an island which controlled the seaways of the Missolonghi lagoon. The Albanian army arrived before Missolonghi and began the siege on 20 September with a bombardment of Aitoliko . The subsequent attack on Aitoliko failed however. Thousands of cannonballs were fired against the island and only

289-533: Was the second attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during the third year of the Greek War of Independence (1823). The second siege is usually ignored however, and the name is often applied to the greater siege of 1825–1826 . After the first unsuccessful attempt to take the town in 1822, another expedition to western Central Greece was undertaken, this time by Mustafa Pasha of Scutari . Mustafa proceeded through

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