Anagnostis Striftombolas

Infobox_Person
name = Anagnostis Striftombolas
"Αναγνώστης Στριφτόμπολας"
birth_date = 1790
birth_place = Soudena near Kalavryta, (now Greece)
death_date = 1865 (age 82)
death_place = Kalavryta, Greece
nationality =
occupation = Greek revolutionary leader

Anagnostis Striftombolas (Greek: Αναγνώστης Στριφτόμπολας, 17th century - 1824) was a Greek revolutionary leader.

Biography

He was born in Mesorrougi in Klousinas near Kalavryta and Akrata. He was a schoolmaster in Tripolitsa in 1800, he was educated with children's notes and learned the art of war especially on knowing how to use a knife. He was a irreconcilable enemy of the Turks and continuously to quarrel with them, one day, he killed a Turk. Movably, he fled to Zakynthos (then Zante) where he was enrolled into the English Army. He returned to Tripolitsa in 1818 as a bodyguard of Asimakis Fotilas, he became ill and Fotilas which he asked and once again returned to Zakynthos. He returned to the same city for the second time and exercised vocationally with a watchamaker but not for a long time. He went to Kertezi near Kalavryta and formed a strategic body of 15 men and battled at Levidi where he was killed.

References

*"Peloponissii agonistes tou 1821, Nikitara apomnimonevmata" ("Πελοποννήσιοι αγωνιστές του 1821, Νικηταρά απομνημονεύματα" = "Peloponnesian Revolutionary Leaders in 1821, Nikitaras Remembered"), Fotakos, Vergina publishers, Athens 1996
*"This article is translated and is based from the article at the Greek Wikipedia (el:Main Page)