Rigas Feraios
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Rigas Feraios or Velestinlis, born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis, was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising aga
Portrait by Andreas Kriezis (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Rigas kindling the Greeks' love of freedom, by Peter von Hess
The Nebojša Tower, where Rigas was executed
Memorial plaque in front of Nebojša Tower in Belgrade, where Rigas Feraios was strangled
Osman Pazvantoğlu
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Osman Pazvantoğlu was an Ottoman mercenary, the de facto ruler of the Sanjak of Vidin after 1794 as a rebel against Ottoman rule, amnestied and recognized in 1799 as pasha by the sultan, continuing re
Rigas Feraios
…out, he was charged with the inspection of the troops in the city of Craiova. Here he entered into friendly relations with an Ottoman officer named Osman Pazvantoğlu, afterwards the rebellious Pasha of Vidin, whose life he saved from the vengeance of Mavrogenes. He learned about the French Revolution, and came to…
19th-century portrait
Osman Pazvantoğlu Mosque in Vidin