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Asimakis Fotilas

Greek politician and revolutionary leader

Asimakis Fotilas (Greek: Ασημάκης Φωτήλας) (1761–1835) was a Greek politician and a revolutionary leader.

Biography

He was born in Kalavryta and was a primate of Kalavryta, who later took part in the Greek War of Independence. Nearly two months before the start of the war, in January 1821, he took part in the Vost...a council. In March 1821, he took part in the Ayia Lavra council and supported the idea of immediate action against the Ottomans. He was vice-president of the Peloponnesian Senate and president of the parliament in 1822. He took part in the Georgios Kountouriotis government in 1824 from which he resigned quickly and became a political opponent of Kountouriotis. He was prosecuted by Kountouriotis and his house was plundered. Later, when King Otto came to power he was re-instated and became a general.

References

  • Istoria tis Ellinikis Epanastasis (Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης = History of the Greek Revolution), Spyridon Trikoupis, Nea Synora, A. A. Livani, Athens 1993 SET ISBN:978-960-236-370-6
  • Peloponisii agonistes tou 1821, Nikitara apomnimonevmata (Πελοποννήσιοι αγωνιστές του 1821, Νικηταρά απομνημονεύματα = Peloponnesian Revolutionary Leaders in 1821, Nikitaras Memoirs), Fotakos, Vergina publishers, Athens 1996
  • Fotakou apomnimonevmata (Φωτάκου απομνημονεύματα = Fotakou Memoirs), Vergina, 1996
  • This article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)
Greek EnlightenmentEuropean intervention and
Greek involvement in
the Napoleonic Wars
  • Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
  • Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
  • Greek Plan of Catherine the Great
  • Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
  • French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
    • Fall of the Republic of Venice
    • Republican French rule in the Ionian Islands
    • Septinsular Republic
    • Greek Legion
    • Imperial French rule in the Ionian Islands
    • Albanian Regiment
    • Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
    • 1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry
  • United States of the Ionian Islands
Ideas
  • Greek nationalism
  • Eastern Orthodox Christianity
  • Liberalism
  • Cons*utionalism
  • Monarchism
EventsSieges
  • Patras
  • Salona
  • Navarino
  • Livadeia
  • 1st Acropolis
  • Tripolitsa
  • Arta
  • Acrocorinth
  • Nauplia
  • 1st Messolonghi
  • 2nd Messolonghi
  • 3rd Messolonghi
  • 2nd Acropolis
Battles
  • Kalamata
  • Wallachian uprising
  • Alamana
  • Gravia
  • Valtetsi
  • Doliana
  • Lalas
  • Vasilika
  • Dragashani
  • Sculeni
  • Vasilika
  • Trench
  • Peta
  • Dervenakia
  • Kar*i
  • Greek civil wars
  • Sphacteria
  • Maniaki
  • Lerna Mills
  • Mani
  • Distomo
  • Arachova
  • Kamatero
  • Phaleron
  • Chios expedition
  • Martino
  • Koronisia
  • Petra
M*acres
  • Constantinople
  • Thessaloniki
  • Navarino
  • Tripolitsa
  • Naousa
  • Samothrace
  • Chios
  • Psara
  • Kasos
  • Cyprus
Naval conflicts
  • Eresos
  • Chios
  • Nauplia
  • Samos
  • Andros
  • Sphacteria
  • Gerontas
  • Souda
  • Alexandria
  • Volos
  • Itea
  • Navarino
Ships
  • Greek sloop Karteria
  • Greek brig Aris
Greek regional councils and statutes
  • Messenian Senate
  • Directorate of Achaea
  • Peloponnesian Senate
  • Senate of Western Continental Greece
  • Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece
  • Provisional Regime of Crete
  • Military-Political System of Samos
Greek national *emblies
  • First (Epidaurus) (Executive of 1822)
  • Second (Astros)
  • Third (Troezen)
  • Fourth (Argos)
  • Fifth (Nafplion)
International Conferences,
Treaties and Protocols
  • Congress of Laibach
  • Congress of Verona
  • Protocol of St. Petersburg (1826)
  • Treaty of London
  • Conference of Poros
  • London Protocol of 1828
  • London Protocol of 1829
  • Treaty of Adrianople
  • London Protocol of 1830
  • London Conference
  • Treaty of Constantinople
Related
  • Greek expedition to Syria (1825)
  • Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)
PersonalitiesGreece
  • Chian Committee
  • Odysseas Androutsos
  • Anagnostaras
  • Markos Botsaris
  • Laskarina Bouboulina
  • Constantin Denis Bourbaki
  • Hatzimichalis Dalianis
  • Kanellos Deligiannis
  • Athanasios Diakos
  • Germanos III of Old Patras
  • Nikolaos Galatis
  • Dimitrios Kallergis
  • Athanasios Kanakaris
  • Konstantinos Kanaris
  • Ioannis Kapodistrias
  • Stamatios Kapsas
  • Panagiotis Karatzas
  • Georgios Karaiskakis
  • Nikolaos Kasomoulis
  • Ioannis Kolettis
  • Theodoros Kolokotronis
  • Georgios Kountouriotis
  • Antonios Kriezis
  • Nikolaos Kriezotis
  • Kyprianos of Cyprus
  • Georgios L*anis
  • Lykourgos Logothetis
  • Andreas Londos
  • Yannis Makriyannis
  • Manto Mavrogenous
  • Alexandros Mavrokordatos
  • Petrobey Mavromichalis
  • Andreas Metaxas
  • Andreas Miaoulis
  • Theodoros Negris
  • Nikitaras
  • Antonis Oikonomou
  • Ioannis Orlandos
  • Papaflessas
  • Dimitrios Papanikolis
  • Emmanouel Pappas
  • Christoforos Perraivos
  • Nikolaos Petimezas
  • Vasileios Petimezas
  • Panagiotis Rodios
  • Georgios Sachtouris
  • Georgios Sisinis
  • Iakovos Tombazis
  • Anastasios Tsamados
  • Meletis Vasileiou
  • Demetrios Ypsilantis
Philhellenes
  • António Figueira d'Almeida
  • Michail Komninos Afentoulief
  • Joseph Balestra
  • Lord Byron
  • François-René de Chateaubriand
  • Richard Church
  • Giuseppe Chiappe
  • Lord Cochrane
  • Vincenzo Gallina
  • Charles Fabvier
  • Thomas Gordon
  • Frank Abney Hastings
  • Carl von Heideck
  • Vasos Mavrovouniotis
  • Johann Jakob Meyer
    • Ellinika Chronika
  • Karl Normann
  • Maxime Raybaud
  • Giuseppe Rosaroll
  • Santorre di Santa Rosa
  • Friedrich Thiersch
  • Auguste Hilarion Touret
  • German Legion:
  • Serbs
  • Olivier Voutier
Moldavia and Wallachia
(Danubian Principalities)
  • Alexander Ypsilantis
  • Sacred Band
  • Nikolaos Ypsilantis
  • Alexandros Kantakouzinos
  • Georgios Kantakouzinos
  • Athanasios Agrafiotis
  • Giorgakis Olympios
  • Yiannis Pharmakis
  • Dimitrie Macedonski
  • Tudor Vladimirescu
  • Konstantinos Xenokratis
  • Anastasios Manakis
  • Stamatios Kleanthis
Ottoman Empire, Algeria, and Egypt
  • Sultan Mahmud II
  • Hurshid Pasha
  • Nasuhzade Ali Pasha
  • Ismael Gibraltar
  • Omer Vrioni
  • Kara Mehmet
  • Mahmud Dramali Pasha
  • Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha
  • Reşid Mehmed Pasha
  • Yussuf Pasha
  • Ibrahim Pasha
  • Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi
Britain, France and Russia
  • George Canning
  • Stratford Canning
  • Edward Codrington
  • Henri de Rigny
  • Lodewijk van Heiden
  • Alexander I of Russia
  • Nicholas I of Russia
Financial aid
  • London Philhellenic Committee
  • Ludwig I of Bavaria
  • Jean-Gabriel Eynard
  • Lazaros Kountouriotis
  • Ioannis Papafis
  • Georgios Stavros
  • Ioannis Varvakis
  • Rothschild & Co
Morea expeditionHistorians/Memoirists
  • Dimitrios Ainian
  • Fotis Chrysanthopoulos
  • Ioannis Filimon
  • George Finlay
  • Ambrosios Frantzis
  • Konstantinos Metaxas
  • Panoutsos Notaras
  • Panagiotis Papatsonis
  • Anastasios Polyzoidis
  • Georgios Tertsetis
  • Spyridon Trikoupis
Art
  • Eugène Delacroix
  • Louis Dupré
  • Peter von Hess
  • Victor Hugo
  • François Pouqueville
  • Alexander Pushkin
  • Karl Krazeisen
  • Andreas Kalvos
  • Dionysios Solomos
  • Theodoros Vryzakis
  • Hellas
  • The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi
  • Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
  • Le siège de Corinthe
  • The M*acre at Chios
  • The Free Besieged
  • Hymn to Liberty
  • The Archipelago on Fire
  • Loukis Laras
  • The Apotheosis of Athanasios Diakos
Remembrance
  • 25 March (Independence Day)
  • Hymn to Liberty
  • Eleftheria i thanatos
  • Pedion tou Areos
  • Propylaea (Munich)
  • Garden of Heroes (Missolonghi)
  • Royal Phalanx
  • Evzones (Presidential Guard)