Nikolaos Skoufas

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Nikolaos Skoufas

Nikolaos Skoufas (1779- July 31 1818) - member of 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 ....
("Society of Friends"), a Greek conspiratorial organization against 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....
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Skoufas was born in 1779 in the village of Komboti, in the province of Arta

Arta

Arta may refer to:places*Arta, Azerbaijan*Arta District, Djibouti*Arta, Djibouti*Arta Prefecture, Greece*Arta, Greece*Piano d'Arta, Italy...
. He worked at various times as an apothecary

Apothecary

Apothecary is a historical name for a medicine who formulates and dispenses materia medica to physicians, surgery and patients ? a role now served by a pharmacist ....
, a commercial secretary and a hatter

Hatter

A hatter is a maker or seller of hats. Milliners are a category of hatters who design women's hats....
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Nikolaos Skoufas (1779- July 31 1818) - member of the Filiki Eteria

Filiki Eteria

Ottoman Empire

Arta

Arta may refer to:places*Arta, Azerbaijan*Arta District, Djibouti*Arta, Djibouti*Arta Prefecture, Greece*Arta, Greece*Piano d'Arta, Italy...
. He worked at various times as an apothecary

Apothecary

Hatter

A hatter is a maker or seller of hats. Milliners are a category of hatters who design women's hats....
. Skoufas left as a merchant for Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
for business purposes. While there, he became acquainted with Athanasios Tsakalov and Emmanuil Xanthos. The three men came up with the idea of founding a secret organisation to prepare the ground for Greek independence. So, the Filiki Eteria was founded in 1814 in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
. Skoufas dedicated the rest of his life to the cause. For this purpose he went to Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
but his ideas did not meet with the approval of many people of the local Greek community.

In 1818, the three partners moved to Constantinople

Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
to further their cause, but in July of that same year Skoufas fell ill and died.