Georgios Avgerinos

Georgios Avgerinos

Infobox_Person
name = Georgios Avgerinos
"Γεώργιος Αυγερινός"
birth_date = 18th century
birth_place =
death_date = 19th century
death_place =
occupation = writer

Georgios Avgerinos (Greek: Γεώργιος Αυγερινός, 18th century - 19th century) was a Greek trader and leader or the Greek War of Independence of 1821.

Biography

He was a general leader of the Avgerinos family in which it ruled the main political view of a free Greece for up to a hundred years. The Avgerinos family descended from Avgerata in the island of Kefalonia in which they moved to the village of Douka in the Ilia Prefecture. Later in 1770, after the destruction, the family relocated themselves to the city of Pyrgos.

Georgios Avgerinos appeared in 1778 as a secretary of the Turkish cattlers in Lalas and in Gastouni. He won the land over the Turks and sold his cattle in Zakynthos or Zante. He defended several privileges for the area of Pyrgos and a small stadium that evolved with the main usage of the draining works of the fields of Gastouni. He defended that he elevation in one of the notable powerful people of Pyrgos where he devoted a large part of his estate for the revolutionary period. In 1807, he welcomed Theodoros Kolokotronis and visited Zante.

After the liberation of Greece, he withdrew from the political races of the press. His son was Dimitrios Avgerinos, Agamenon Avgerinos and Christodoulos.

References

*"Domi Encyclopedia"
*Vyronas Davos "I Zoi ton katoikon tis Ileias kata tin Tourkokratia" ("Η ζωή των κατοίκων της Ηλείας κατα την Τουρκοκρατία" = "The Life Of The Inhabitants Of Ilia During The Turkish Rule"), Athens 1993
*Vyronas Davos "Ston Pyrgo Kai Stin Ileia tou 1821 - 1930" ("Στον Πύργο και στην Ηλεία του 1821-1930" = ""In Pyrgos And In Ilia Between 1821 And 1930") Athens 1996
*Vyronas DAvos "Istoria tou Pyrgou Ileia kai 17 perichoron" ("Ιστορία του Πύργου Ηλείας και 17 περιχώρων" = "History Of Pyrgos Ilia And Its 17 Vicinities") Athens, 1995
*Papatheodoropoulos "Peloponnisiaki egkyklopedia" ("Πελοποννησιακή εγκυκλοπαίδεια" = "The Peloponnesian Encyclopedia")
*"The first version of the article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)


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