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Rigas Feraios

1757 - 1798

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Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίος pronounced [ˈriɣas fɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced [vɛlɛstinˈlis], also transliterated Velestinles); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρήγας Βελεστινλής), was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rigas Feraios has received more than 268,374 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Rigas Feraios is the 1,134th most popular writer (down from 1,125th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Greece (down from 258th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Greek Writer.

Rigas Feraios was a Greek poet who wrote during the time of the Ottoman Empire. He was most famous for his poems that criticized the Ottoman Empire and called for an uprising to overthrow it.

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Among writers, Rigas Feraios ranks 1,134 out of 7,302. Before him are August von Kotzebue, Lycophron, Clément Marot, Sami Frashëri, John Updike, and Fredric Brown. After him are Bharata Muni, Saint Gall, Michel Butor, Arnold Zweig, Bulat Okudzhava, and Gaius Valerius Flaccus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Rigas Feraios ranks 10. Before him are Antonio Canova, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. After him are George Vancouver, Erik Acharius, Ignaz Pleyel, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein. Among people deceased in 1798, Rigas Feraios ranks 6. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, and Heraclius II of Georgia. After him are George Vancouver, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tarrare, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Johann Reinhold Forster, and Edward Waring.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 265 out of 1,024. Before him are Alcamenes (-500), Agathon (-448), Conon of Samos (-280), Andocides (-440), Cynisca (-430), and Lycophron (-320). After him are George Maniakes (998), Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872), Vicky Leandros (1949), Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), Agis II (-490), and Ugo Foscolo (1778).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 32. Before him are Lafcadio Hearn (1850), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Corinna (-501), Jean Moréas (1856), Agathon (-448), and Lycophron (-320). After him are Ugo Foscolo (1778), Cratinus (-500), Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (1062), Phrynichus (-535), Semonides of Amorgos (-650), and Diagoras of Melos (-450).

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