Georgios Karaiskakis
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Georgios Karaiskakis born Georgios Iskos (January 23, 1780 or January 23, 1782 – April 23, 1827) was a famous Greek
Greeks
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 klepht
Klepht
Klephts were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire...

, armatolos
Armatoloi
Armatoloi , were Greek Christian irregular soldiers, or militia, commissioned by the Ottomans to enforce the Sultan's authority within an administrative district called an Armatoliki...

, military commander, and a hero of the Greek War of Independence
Greek War of Independence
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.
Karaiskakis was born either in a monastery
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 near the village of Mavrom(m)ati , in the Agrafa
Agrafa
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 mountains (located in what is now the Karditsa Prefecture
Karditsa Prefecture
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, Thessaly
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) or in a monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...

 near the village of Skoulikaria close to Arta
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. His father was the armatolos of the Valtos district, Dimitris Iskos or Karaiskos, his mother Zoe Dimiski, a nun
Nun
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 from Arta
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 and cousin of Gogos Bakolas, captain of the armatoliki
Armatoloi
Armatoloi , were Greek Christian irregular soldiers, or militia, commissioned by the Ottomans to enforce the Sultan's authority within an administrative district called an Armatoliki...

 of Radovitsi.
 
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