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Greek Writer, Political Thinker, Revolutionary, Active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, Executed After the Balkan Uprising Against the Ottoman Empire
: A Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Better an hour of life that is free than forty years in slavery!”
Source: "The Balkans Since 1453," by L.S. Stavrianos, Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1958. Part 4: Age of Nationalism: 1815-1878, Chapter 15: Greek Revolution and Independent Statehood to 1878, Page 279.
"The Balkans Since 1453," by L.S. Stavrianos, Dryden Press, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1958.
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