Athanasios Pipis
Greek revolutionary commander
Athanasios Pipis or Thanas Pipi (died in 1821) was a Greek priest and Greek Orthodox leader who fought in the Greek revolution of 1821.
Life
changePipis was born in the village of Vuno in Himara (Ottoman Empire then, Albania today).[1]
In July 1804, he joined the Himariote and Souliote regiments of the Russian Empire's army.[2] Pipis joined the regiments to support a possible revolt against the Ottoman Empire.[2] In 1821, he joined the forces of Alexander Ypsilantis and took part in an anti-Ottoman uprising in Moldavia and Wallachia.[1][2] During the battle of Dragashani on 7 June 1821, Pipis and his men were killed fighting against Ottoman forces that outnumbered them.[1][2]
References
changeCitations
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruches 1967, p. 123.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Pappas 1991, pp. 193, 312–313.
Sources
change- Pappas, Nicholas Charles (1991). Greeks in Russian Military Service in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies.
- Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1967). Albanian Historical Folksongs, 1716–1943: A Survey of Oral Epic Poetry from Southern Albania, with Original Texts. Chicago: Argonaut Inc., Publishers.