Athanasios Pipis
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Athanasios Pipis or Thanas Pipi (died in 1821) was a
Greek Orthodox revolutionary commander in the Greek War of Independence
(1821–1830).
Life
Pipis was born in the village of
In July 1804 he joined the Himariote and
Battle of Dragashani, Pipis together with thirty men tried to defend against numerical superior Ottoman forces. Pipis was killed together with the rest of his men.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b J. Ruches, Pyrrhus (1967). Albanian historical folksongs, 1716-1943: a survey of oral epic poetry from southern Albania, with original texts. Argonaut. p. 123.
- ^ a b Pappas, Nicholas Charles (1991). Greeks in Russian military service in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Institute for Balkan Studies. pp. 193, 312–313.