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Siege of Tripolitsa
1821 battle and massacre in the Greek War of Independence / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The siege of Tripolitsa or fall of Tripolitsa (Greek: Άλωση της Τριπολιτσάς, romanized: Álosi tis Tripolitsás, Greek pronunciation: [ˈalosi tis tripoliˈt͡sas]), also known as the Tripolitsa massacre (Turkish: Tripoliçe katliamı), was an early victory of the revolutionary Greek forces in the summer of 1821 during the Greek War of Independence, which had begun earlier that year, against the Ottoman Empire. Tripolitsa was an important target, because it was the administrative center of the Ottomans in the Peloponnese.
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Siege of Tripolitsa | |||||||
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Part of the Greek War of Independence | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Theodoros Kolokotronis Dimitris Plapoutas Anagnostaras Petros Mavromichalis Panagiotis Kefalas Alexandros Kantakouzinos Maxime Raybaud |
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10,000 | 12,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
100 killed or wounded[1] | 8,000 killed, wounded, or captured | ||||||
6,000–15,000 Muslim and Jewish civilians killed[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] |
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Following the capture of the city by the Greek revolutionary forces, a massacre of its Muslim and Jewish population occurred.