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-'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].
+'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and [[Ano Mousounitsa]].
 Prior to the war he entered a monastery and was ordained a deacon ("diakos" in the Greek language). One day a Turkish pasha came to his monastery and made some crude remarks about his good looks. Diakos slew him and fled to the mountains. He join a band of [[klephts]] under [[Odysseus Androutsos]], who made him second in command. Eventually, he headed his own band.

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	'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].		'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].

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	'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].		'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].

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−	Athanasios Diakos was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: Artotina and (more likely) Mousounitsa.	+	'''Athanasios Diakos''' was a hero of the Greek [[War of Independence]]. He was born Athanasios Massavetas in [[1788]]. Two villages in the [[Phocis prefecture]] claim to be his birthplace: [[Artotina]] and (more likely) [[Mousounitsa]].

	Prior to the war he entered a monastery and was ordained a deacon ("diakos" in the Greek language). One day a Turkish pasha came to his monastery and made some crude remarks about his good looks. Diakos slew him and fled to the mountains. He join a band of [[klephts]] under [[Odysseus Androutsos]], who made him second in command. Eventually, he headed his own band.		Prior to the war he entered a monastery and was ordained a deacon ("diakos" in the Greek language). One day a Turkish pasha came to his monastery and made some crude remarks about his good looks. Diakos slew him and fled to the mountains. He join a band of [[klephts]] under [[Odysseus Androutsos]], who made him second in command. Eventually, he headed his own band.

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 Prior to the war he entered a monastery and was ordained a deacon ("diakos" in the Greek language). One day a Turkish pasha came to his monastery and made some crude remarks about his good looks. Diakos slew him and fled to the mountains. He join a band of [[klephts]] under [[Odysseus Androutsos]], who made him second in command. Eventually, he headed his own band.
-In April [[1821]], [[Omer Vrioni]], the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt in [[Peloponnesus]]. Diakos and his band of followers along with two other bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]]. Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed.
+In April [[1821]], [[Omer Vrioni]], the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt in [[Peloponnesus]]. Diakos and his band of followers along with two other bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]]. At the ensuing [[Battle of Alamana]], Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed.
 The wounded Diakos was taken to Vrioni. Vrioni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army but Diakos refused and replied "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek".

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 In April [[1821]], [[Omer Vrioni]], the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt in [[Peloponnesus]]. Diakos and his band of followers along with two other bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]]. Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed.
-The wounded Diakos was take to Vryoni. Vryoni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army but Diakos refused and replied "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek".
+The wounded Diakos was taken to Vrioni. Vrioni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army but Diakos refused and replied "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek".
-Vryoni ordered that Diakos be tied to a spit and roasted over a fire. As he was about to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.
+Vrioni then ordered that Diakos be impaled on a spit and roasted over a fire. As he was about to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.
 [[Category:Greek War of Independence|Diakos, Athanasios]]
 [[Category:1788 births|Diakos, Athanasios]]
 [[Category:1821 deaths|Diakos, Athanasios]]

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	Vryoni ordered that Diakos be tied to a spit and roasted over a fire. As he was about to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.		Vryoni ordered that Diakos be tied to a spit and roasted over a fire. As he was about to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.
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 Prior to the war he entered a monastery and was ordained a deacon ("diakos" in the Greek language). One day a Turkish pasha came to his monastery and made some crude remarks about his good looks. Diakos slew him and fled to the mountains. He join a band of [[klephts]] under [[Odysseus Androutsos]], who made him second in command. Eventually, he headed his own band.
-In April [[1821]], Omer Vryonis, the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt in [[Peloponnesus]]. Diakos and his band of followers along with two other bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]]. Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed.
+In April [[1821]], [[Omer Vryoni]], the commander of the Turkish army, advanced with 9,000 men from [[Thessaly]] to crush the revolt in [[Peloponnesus]]. Diakos and his band of followers along with two other bands - a total of perhaps 1,500 men - took up defensive positions at the river of Alamana ([[Spercheios]]), near [[Thermopylae]]. Diakos' men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed.
 The wounded Diakos was take to Vryonis. Vryonis offered to make Diakos an officer in his army but Diakos refused and replied "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek".
 Vryonis ordered that Diakos be tied to a spit and roasted over a fire. As he was about to die onlookers heard him sing "Look at the time [[Charon]] chose to take me, now that branches are flowering, now that the earth sends forth grass" referring to the Greeks' uprising against the Turks.