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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 254,126 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Rigas Feraios is the 1,127th most popular writer (up from 1,207th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Greece (up from 271st in 2019) and the 31st 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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  • 60.04

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rigas Feraios ranks 1,127 out of 5,755. Before him are Hrotsvitha, Lobsang Rampa, Ken Kesey, Eiji Yoshikawa, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, and Joachim du Bellay. After him are Ouyang Xiu, Polyaenus, Rex Stout, Yakub Kolas, Nikolai Leskov, and Joseph Bédier.

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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 Ignaz Pleyel. After him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, George Vancouver, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. Among people deceased in 1798, Rigas Feraios ranks 5. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Luigi Galvani, Stanisław August Poniatowski, and Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen. After him are Christian Gottlob Neefe, George Vancouver, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, and Edward Waring.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 258 out of 936. Before him are Christos Sartzetakis (1929), Eudemus of Rhodes (-370), Perdiccas I of Macedon (-700), Agis I (-957), Aristides of Athens (150), and Theramenes (-450). After him are Anaxandridas II (-565), Ugo Foscolo (1778), Erasistratus (-303), Alexander V of Macedon (-390), Cyril Lucaris (1572), and Machaon (null).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Rigas Feraios ranks 31. Before him are Bacchylides (-490), Philostratus (170), Agathon (-448), Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Jean Moréas (1856), and Corinna (-501). After him are Ugo Foscolo (1778), Lycophron (-320), Naim Frashëri (1846), Cratinus (-500), Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1423), and Diagoras of Melos (-450).

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