Markos Botsaris: Souliote Leader and Hero of the Greek War of Independence

The song is ENA ΠOYΛI ΘAΛAΣΣINO - Ena pouli thalassino (A bird from the sea) from Guardians of Hellenism VOL 8 EPIRUS.

Markos Botsaris (Μάρκος Μπότσαρης) was the son of Kitsos Botsaris (Κίτσος Μπότσαρις), the leader of the Souliotes (Σουλιώτες). Kitsos was executed by Ali Pasha, who also tried to exterminate all the souliotes who refused to surrender to his tyranny.

Markos Botsaris was an Arvanite, and a Hero of the Greek independence war. He died at the siege of Messolonghi (Μεσολόγγι). His brother Kostas was also a great warrior. Markos left a great legacy behind him, both in his descendants who rose to prominent positions in the Greek government, and to all those who found him inspiration, Greek and foreigner. many of the paintings are from Jean Leon Gerome, famous orientalist.

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[ZotiSOKOL]

si valle came duket kjo!!!!

[katoliku252003]

Arvanitika also known Arvanitic (Arvanitika: αρbε̰ρίσ̈τ arbërisht, Greek: αρβανίτικα arvanitika) is the variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanites, a population group in Greece. Arvanitika is today an endangered language, as its speakers have been shifting to the use of Greek and most younger members of the community no longer speak it.[2]

[katoliku252003]

Quote: Originally Posted by euagoras Well, to begin with arvanitai is a derivative word of alvanitai(albanians) as they were called that time.Sources are plenty..

[katoliku252003]

The Souliotes were of Albanian origin (Albanian: Suliotët), while the dialect they initially spoke is classified as one of Cham Albanian dialects[22] of Tosk Albanian,[23] and religiously, they belonged to the Church of Constantinople, part of the larger Greek Orthodox Church.

[katoliku252003]

In Ottoman-ruled Epirus, national identity didn't play any role to the social classification of the local society, while religion was the key factor of classification of the local communities. According to this, the Muslim communities in Epirus were classified as Turks, while the Orthodox, like the Souliotes, were classified as Greeks.[20] As sources claim, they had rather a strong local identity.[21]

[Jeffanos]

@ktm066 Well Greeks have also some non idoeuropean words..What does this mean??Greeks created modern civilisation and they'll always be the first in our Arvanitic hearts.....U use more Greek words than i use Albanian..Democracy Philosphy Mathematics Economy Gastronomy Geometry Physics Clasic etc are only few of the Greek words all European languages use...

[Jeffanos]

@ktm066 And only Hitler bealived in biological continuity of nations..It seems u r one of those neonazis..lol Well know that Albanians is a mixture of Goths Illyrians Pelasgians Arabs Franks and Vnenetians...Exactly like Modern Greeks..All nations are mixed nowdays now go play with your toys and leave history to professionals..And this propaganda is pure shit i'm tired of u...I'm going to slap my Albanian slave to work harder and it's your fault..

[Jeffanos]

@ktm066 Ena comes from the ancient Greek word en wich means one... Educate zourshelf and stop sazing those bullshit...Illyrians were Indoeuropeans like Greeks and Armenians..They mixed with pelasgian a semetic tribe who lived in Modern day Albania and Greece...All true mediteranean nations are a mixture of Indoeuropean and semetic tribes..Anicent Greeks were white as we still are but we also have some dark skinned remrants from those semetic tribes..

[Jeffanos]

@ktm066 Oh and learn the meaning of the word assimilated lol...And Vlepw ena puli vounisio is Greek...

[Jeffanos]

@ktm066 And we are GrecoIllyrians sicne we have both Greek and Illyrian blodd after the mixation of our tribes with the natives...Oh and if u go to Sardinia and sicilly u will find not only Arvanites but also Greeks from Mani (Spartans that migrated there)...The fact that we came from Albania 700 years ago doesn't make us Albanians..Do u want to remind u that Napoleon Zervas was a Souliot and deported all the Chams from Epirus??And Greeks killed Chams not my people lol..Read history..