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Dimitris Koliopoulos Plapoutas (May 15, 1786 – July 1865) was a Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 general who fought during the Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829, with later assistance from several Europe powers, against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassal state, the Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors....
 against the rule of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
.

He was born on in Paloumba
Paloumba

The town of Paloumba, ?a????pa in Greek language is a Greece town positioned on a balcony overlooking the plain of Elis towards the Ionian Sea. It is the seat of the municipality of Iraia despite having a smaller population than other potential candidates....
, Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
, the son of Kollias Plapoutas, an Armatolos
Armatoloi

Armatoloi , were Greek Christian irregular soldiers, or militia, commissioned by the Ottoman Empire to enforce the Sultan's authority within an administrative district called an Armatoliki ....
, being this the reason why Theodoros Kolokotronis
Theodoros Kolokotronis

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greece general in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.He was one of the major reasons the Greeks won the war....
 referred to him simply as "Koliopoulos" .

In 1811, he left Paloumba for the Ionian Islands
Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are a island group in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e. "the Seven Islands" , but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones....
 where he became an officer in the British army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
. In 1818, he joined the Filiki Eteria
Filiki Eteria

The Filiki Eteria, variously transliterated as Filiki Etairia or Filiki Etaireia Brothers or Vlamides , b) the Recommended , ?) the Priests and d) the Shepherds ....
, which was planning to liberate Greece from Ottoman control.

During the revolution, Dimitris Plapoutas took part in the Siege of Tripoli
Tripoli

Tripoli is the largest and Capital city of Libya.Tripoli has a population of 1.69 million. The city is located in the northwest of the country on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay....
, the capture of the castle at Korinthos
Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
, the Battle of Valtetsi
Battle of Valtetsi

The Battle of Valtetsi was fought on May 12, 1821 in Valtetsi between the Ottoman Empire army and Greeks revolutionaries....
, the Battle of Maniaki and other battles.

After independence, in 1833, along with General Theodoros Kolokotronis
Theodoros Kolokotronis

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greece general in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.He was one of the major reasons the Greeks won the war....
 and General Kitsos Tzavelas
Kitsos Tzavelas

Kitsos Tzavelas was a Greek War of Independence fighter of Souliotes origin and Prime Minister of Greece. Tzavelas was born in Souli, Epirus in 1800, the son of Fotos Tzavelas and grandson of Lambros Tzavelas both of whom were famous for their roles in the Souliotes struggles against Ali Pasha, the Pashalik of Janina....
, Plapoutas supported Prince Otto of Bavaria
Otto of Greece

Otto of Bavaria was made the first modern king of First Kingdom of Greece in 1832 under the London Conference of 1832, whereby Greece became a new independent monarchy under the protection of the Great Powers ....
 as the King of Greece.






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Dimitris Koliopoulos Plapoutas (May 15, 1786 – July 1865) was a Greek
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
 general who fought during the Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829, with later assistance from several Europe powers, against the Ottoman Empire, who were assisted by their vassal state, the Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors....
 against the rule of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
.

He was born on in Paloumba
Paloumba

The town of Paloumba, ?a????pa in Greek language is a Greece town positioned on a balcony overlooking the plain of Elis towards the Ionian Sea. It is the seat of the municipality of Iraia despite having a smaller population than other potential candidates....
, Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
, the son of Kollias Plapoutas, an Armatolos
Armatoloi

Armatoloi , were Greek Christian irregular soldiers, or militia, commissioned by the Ottoman Empire to enforce the Sultan's authority within an administrative district called an Armatoliki ....
, being this the reason why Theodoros Kolokotronis
Theodoros Kolokotronis

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greece general in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.He was one of the major reasons the Greeks won the war....
 referred to him simply as "Koliopoulos" .

In 1811, he left Paloumba for the Ionian Islands
Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are a island group in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e. "the Seven Islands" , but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones....
 where he became an officer in the British army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
. In 1818, he joined the Filiki Eteria
Filiki Eteria

The Filiki Eteria, variously transliterated as Filiki Etairia or Filiki Etaireia Brothers or Vlamides , b) the Recommended , ?) the Priests and d) the Shepherds ....
, which was planning to liberate Greece from Ottoman control.

During the revolution, Dimitris Plapoutas took part in the Siege of Tripoli
Tripoli

Tripoli is the largest and Capital city of Libya.Tripoli has a population of 1.69 million. The city is located in the northwest of the country on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay....
, the capture of the castle at Korinthos
Corinth

Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
, the Battle of Valtetsi
Battle of Valtetsi

The Battle of Valtetsi was fought on May 12, 1821 in Valtetsi between the Ottoman Empire army and Greeks revolutionaries....
, the Battle of Maniaki and other battles.

After independence, in 1833, along with General Theodoros Kolokotronis
Theodoros Kolokotronis

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greece general in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.He was one of the major reasons the Greeks won the war....
 and General Kitsos Tzavelas
Kitsos Tzavelas

Kitsos Tzavelas was a Greek War of Independence fighter of Souliotes origin and Prime Minister of Greece. Tzavelas was born in Souli, Epirus in 1800, the son of Fotos Tzavelas and grandson of Lambros Tzavelas both of whom were famous for their roles in the Souliotes struggles against Ali Pasha, the Pashalik of Janina....
, Plapoutas supported Prince Otto of Bavaria
Otto of Greece

Otto of Bavaria was made the first modern king of First Kingdom of Greece in 1832 under the London Conference of 1832, whereby Greece became a new independent monarchy under the protection of the Great Powers ....
 as the King of Greece. However, later he opposed the Bavarian-dominated regency during his rule. He was charged with high treason and on June 7, 1834 he was imprisoned at the Palamidi
Palamidi

Palamidi is a military fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplion in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was built by the Republic of Venice during their second occupation of the area ....
 along with Kolokotronis and sentenced to death. He was later pardoned in 1835. Plapoutas then became involved in Greek politics and served in Parliament (1844 - 1847) and in the Senate (1847 - 1862). He was made an honorary bodyguard of King Otto and was entrusted with escorting him to his new kingdom.

Plapoutas also had a brother, Giorgios, who fought alongside him in many battles and died in the Battle of Lalas. When he was around seventy years old, Plapoutas married a woman in her thirties and had one child, a girl named Athanasia. Plapoutas died shortly afterwards. His house still stands (albeit heavily damaged from an earthquake during the 1960s) in his home town of Paloumba
Paloumba

The town of Paloumba, ?a????pa in Greek language is a Greece town positioned on a balcony overlooking the plain of Elis towards the Ionian Sea. It is the seat of the municipality of Iraia despite having a smaller population than other potential candidates....
, Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
.

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