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
Nicholas Mavrogenes
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Nicholas Mavrogenes, was a Phanariote Dragoman of the Fleet and de facto governor of the Cyclades islands and later Prince of Wallachia. He was the great-uncle of Manto Mavrogenous, a heroine of the G
Mavrogenes and the Boyar Council
Coburg's troops being welcomed in Bucharest
Mavrogenes in a deer-drawn carriage