Dimitrakis Deligiannis
Dimitrakis Deligiannis (Greek: Δημητράκης Δεληγιάννης; 1783 – 1848) was a fighter of the Greek War of Independence of 1821 from Arcadia, Greece.
Biography
Dimitrakis Deligiannis was born in 1783 in
Tripolitsa.[4] During the fall of the city, Deligiannis entered it from the parapet of Seragio[5] before heading to Patras
where he participated in the siege of the city.
In 1822, he participated in the attempt to repel the expedition of
Ydra. He was later released and took part in operations against Ibrahim Pasha's Egyptian army. In 1825 Deligiannis fought as a commander in the unsuccessful battle of Trambala, and in July he carried out various ambushes against the enemy forces in Dervenia Leontari.[10] He fought in Piana and at the beginning of 1826 in a victorious battle between the villages of Zevgolatio and Agiannis.[11]
Deligiannis was promoted to the rank of
general and after the liberation, he settled in Lagadia where he died in 1848.[12]
Deligiannis and his wife Stathoula had a son Ioannis, who became a politician and served as a government minister in 1874–76.
References
- ^ Chrysanthopoulos, Photios (1888). "Βίοι Πελοποννησίων ανδρών και των εξώθεν εις την Πελοπόννησον ελθόντων κληρικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών των αγωνισαμένων τον αγώνα της επαναστάσεως". Typographeion P.D . Sakellariou.
- ^ Kokkinos, pp. 366–367, 408–414
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. Β, p. 75
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. Β, p. 78
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. Β, p. 218
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. Β, p. 566
- ^ Kokkinos, vol. Β, p. 591
- ^ Vakalopoulos, vol. ST, p. 323
- ^ Vakalopoulos, vol. ST, p. 788–789
- ^ Vakalopoulos, vol. ST, p. 127, 270
- ^ Vakalopoulos, vol. Ζ, pp. 273, 328–329
- ^ Eftychia Liata, Αρχείο της Οικογένειας Δεληγιάννη, Εταιρεία των Φίλων του Λαού- Ιστορικόν Αρχείον, Athens 1992
Bibliography
- Apostolos E. Vakalopoulos, Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού, τόμος ΣΤ, Thessaloniki 1982
- Photios Chrysanthopoulos, Βίοι Πελοποννησίων ανδρών και των εξώθεν εις την Πελοπόννησον ελθόντων κληρικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών των αγωνισαμένων τον αγώνα της επαναστάσεως. Athens: Stavros Andropoulos, 1888
- Dionysios Kokkinos, Η Ελληνική Επανάστασις. Athens: Editions Melissa, 1974
- Eftychia Liata, Αρχείο της Οικογένειας Δεληγιάννη, Εταιρεία των Φίλων του Λαού- Ιστορικόν Αρχείον, Athens 1992