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Irlandos: New page: '''Konstantinos Giaboudakis''' was a Cretan patriot, who blew up the gunpowder room at Arkadi Monastery. Giaboudakis was born in Adele, Rethymno....

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New page: '''Konstantinos Giaboudakis''' was a Cretan patriot, who blew up the gunpowder room at Arkadi Monastery. Giaboudakis was born in Adele, Rethymno....

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'''Konstantinos Giaboudakis''' was a [[Crete|Cretan]] patriot, who blew up the gunpowder room at [[Arkadi]] Monastery.

Giaboudakis was born in [[Adele]], [[Rethymno prefecture|Rethymno]]. He joined the revolt of [[1866]] against the Turks and was at [[Arkadi]] Monastery, on [[November 8]] of that year, when it was besieged by 15,000 Turks.

On [[November 9]], the monastery's defences were breached. Giaboudakis was ordered by [[Abbot Gabriel Marinakis]] to blow up the gunpowder room where the elderly, women and children had taken refuge. Giaboudakis announced his intentions and asked if anyone preferred to leave the room and take their chances. He then waited until the Turkish troops started pounding the room's door and blasted the gunpowder causing the explosion that took the lives of all the Greeks present and several hundred Turks.

==Controversy==
Though it is generally accepted that Giaboudakis blew up the gunpowder room, some claim that Emmanouil Skoulas was the man who actually pulled the trigger.

[[Category:1866 deaths|Giaboudakis, Konstantinos]]
[[Category:Crete|Giaboudakis, Konstantinos]]

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	Giaboudakis was born in [[Adele]], [[Rethymno prefecture\|Rethymno]]. He joined the revolt of [[1866]] against the Turks and was at [[Arkadi]] Monastery, on [[November 8]] of that year, when it was besieged by 15,000 Turks.		Giaboudakis was born in [[Adele]], [[Rethymno prefecture\|Rethymno]]. He joined the revolt of [[1866]] against the Turks and was at [[Arkadi]] Monastery, on [[November 8]] of that year, when it was besieged by 15,000 Turks.

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Irlandos at 15:17, March 30, 2007

Irlandos: New page: '''Konstantinos Giaboudakis''' was a Cretan patriot, who blew up the gunpowder room at Arkadi Monastery. Giaboudakis was born in Adele, Rethymno....