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
Dimitrios Makris, a Greek klepht chief of the 19th century.
Portrait of Odysseas Androutsos by Kozis Desyllas
Antonis Katsantonis (Greek klepht) by Theophilos Hatzimihail.
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
Klepht
…Greek κλέφτης, kléftis, pl. κλέφτες, kléftes, which means "thieves" and perhaps originally meant just "brigand") 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 descendants…
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.