Ioannis (Yannis) Makriyannis (October 29, 1797 - April 27, 1864)
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Ιωάννης Μακρυγιάννης Ioannis Triantafyllou, better known as Ioannis (Yannis) Makrygiannis (Krokyleio, Fokida, 1797 - Athens, April 27, 1864), was a Greek commander of the Greek Revolution of 1821, soldier, politician and writer. He was born in 1797, in the settlement of Aboritis in Krokyleio, Fokida, and his family name was Triantafyllou, Dimitrios and Vasiliki, which he diligently hid in his young age at the suggestion of his mother, due to fear of further reprisals, because Dimitris' father he had been killed, under unclear circumstances, in a clash with the Turks when Makrygiannis was one year old. The reasons for his father's murder are unknown: perhaps they are connected to incidents in his family's kleptomaniac life. The killing of Triantaphyllos should probably be attributed to the consequences of his involvement in the looting activities of the thief bodies of Kaliakudas and their disintegration. At the age of four, after an invasion by the Turks, he was fo...