Armatoles
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The armatoles, or armatole in singular, were irregular soldiers, or militia, commissioned by the Ottomans to enforce the sultan's authority within an administrative district called an armatoliki. In G
Watercolor painting by Carl Haag (1861) conceivably representing an armatole.
Greek Armotoles wearing traditional fustanella with Kariophili Flintlock muskets, sabers, flintlock pistols
Greek armatole by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1825-6.
Dimitrios Makris (c. 1772–1841), a Greek armatole of the 19th century.
Klepht
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Klephts were highwaymen turned self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. They were the des
Armatoles
…αρματολίκι in singular, αρματολίκια, armatolikia in plural). In Greek regions of the Ottoman Empire, they were composed of Greeks who were either former klephts or village stalwarts who had taken up arms against the klephts in the defense of their district. The Greek armatoles had a semi-independent status all…
Portrait of Odysseas Androutsos by Kozis Desyllas
Antonis Katsantonis (Greek klepht) by Theophilos Hatzimihail.