Phantis:Selected anniversaries/January 17
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- 395: Upon the death of Theodosius I, the Roman Empire was permanently split into West and East. Some historians consider this event the beginning of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1822: Ali Pasha was beheaded by the Turks on a small island of Lake Pamvotis. The severed head was sent to Sultan Mahmud II in Istanbul.
- 1827: Georgios Karaiskakis defeated the Turkish army at Distomo possibly saving the Greek Revolution from being extinguished in Rumeli.
- Births: Nikos Nioplias, football player and coach (1965).
- Deaths: Theodosius I, Byzantine emperor (395), Ali Pasha (1822), Petrobey Mavromichalis, Maniote leader during the Greek Revolution (1848), Antonis Travlantonis, author (1943).
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