Athanasios Petimezas
Athanasios Petimezas or Petmezas (Greek: Αθανάσιος Πετ[ι]μεζάς, c. 1767–1804) was a leading Greek armatolos in the late Ottoman-era Peloponnese.
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[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]An haifi Athanasios Petimezas a shekara ta a Kato Lousoi kusa da Kalavryta . [1][el] Yayinda yake yaro, watakila yana da shekaru goma, Turks sun kai , tare da niyyar sanya shi Janissary.[1] Bayan shekaru shida, Petimezas ya sami damar tserewa, a asirce ya shiga jirgin ruwa da ke zuwa asalinsa na Peloponnese. A kan hanya, 'yan fashi na Tripolitanian sun shiga jirgin, wadanda suka kama ma'aikatan zuwa Tripoli. A can Petimezas ya kasance a kurkuku na ɗan lokaci, har sai da ya ci gasar tsalle ya haifar da sake shi.[1]
Da zarar ya dawo gidansa, Petimezas ya zama klepht, da sauri ya zo ya jagoranci babban ƙungiyar yaƙi a hare-hare kan Ottomans a arewa maso yammacin Peloponnese.[1] Don kawar da wannan barazanar, gwamnatin Ottoman ta yankin ta ba shi armatoliki na Kalavryta da yankinta; a lokaci guda, sun nemi Pasha na Morea ya aiko musu da ƙarfafawa a kan Petimezas da mutanensa. Don wannan dalili, pasha ya kafa tarko: Musulmai daga ƙauyen Lalas za su kai hari yankin Kalavryta a matsayin 'yan fashi, suna tilasta Petimezas ya yi tafiya a kansu. Pasha zai aika da sojoji, don taimaka masa, amma tare da ainihin manufar kawar da shi.[1] Petimezas ya fahimci wannan shirin, kuma ya fara, ta hanyar kai farmaki da kawar da Lalaians a Sirbani.[1]
Bayan haka, ya ci gaba da kai hare-hare kan Turks na yankin, kuma a cikin 1785 ya shiga ƙungiyar Mani" typeof="mw:Transclusion">armatoloi na Peloponnese wanda Zacharias Barbitsiotis ya fara. Petimezas ya zama mataimakin shugaban kungiyar, bayan Theodoros Kolokotronis . [1] A shekara ta 1796, yayin da Petimezas ke Mani, Ottomans sun kai hari kuma sun kashe 'yan uwansa Ioannis da Antonios, da' yan uwansa Stefos da Dimitrios, tare da wasu daga cikin mutanensu, kusa da Mega Spilaion.[1] Wannan hari a bayyane yake ya samo asali ne daga abokin hamayyar Girka, Sotirios Charalambis na Zarushla; a lokacin da ya dawo daga Mani, Petimezas ya kai hari gidan hasumiyar Caharalmbis kuma ya kashe mazaunanta, ya ƙone hasumiyar yayin da ya tafi.[1] Bayan haka, ya sake ci gaba da kai hare-hare kan Turks, wanda aka ruwaito ya kashe kusan ɗari daga cikinsu, kafin a tilasta masa guduwa zuwa Amfissa don tserewa.[1]
A shekara ta 1800, ya sami damar dawowa, yayin da Ottomans suka sake ba shi lambar yabo ta Kalavryta da Vostitsa.[1] Duk da haka, yayin da ya kasance abokin adawar haɗari, a ranar 11 ga Yuni 1804, Turks, tare da taimakon wani abokin hamayyarsa, Asimakis Skaltsas, sun kai hari ga Petimezas a gidansa mai hasumiya a Soudena. Petimezas ya yi tsayayya na ɗan lokaci, amma bawansa ne ya kashe shi, wanda Ottomans suka ba da cin hanci.[1]