Anastasios Christopoulos
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Anastasios Christopoulos (Greek: Αναστάσιος Χριστόπουλος) (1805–1887) was a Greek
Greece
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 revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence
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 and a lawman.

Christopoulos was born in Andritsaina
Andritsaina
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 and was the son of Christos Christopoulos. Christopoulos was substantially a leader in family studies from his family
Christopoulos
The surname Christopoulos or Hristopoulos may refer to several main families that originate from Olympia, Greece:*Agamemnon Christopoulos, politician of Ilia and brother of Asimakis?...

, in which his member from his political life. He studied law and philosophy in Constantinople
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 (now Istanbul
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) and in Pisa
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 and life for several years in Bucharest
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. During the outbreak of the revolution
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, he moved himsself and was captured but he later moved to Iaşi
Iasi
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 where he remained until 1828, he later returned to independent Greece.

In Greece, he ran in the judicial bory and was a jurce in the islands of Andros
Andros
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, Spetses
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, Kea and Aigina as a judicial president. Continuously he headed to Athens
Athens
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 where he was a city judge, the court of appeals and a city judge president. He wrote grammatically in the Greek language
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.

He died in 1854. He was the son of a soldier of the Greek revolution Tzannetos Christopoulos
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