MILITARY PERSONNEL

Theodoros Kolokotronis

1770 - 1843

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Theodoros Kolokotronis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης; 3 April 1770 – 4 February 1843) was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire. The son of a klepht leader who fought the Ottomans during the Orlov revolt, Kolokotronis also operated as a klepht and an armatolos early in his life. While serving in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars, he became influenced by the revolutionary ideas of the era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Theodoros Kolokotronis has received more than 559,907 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Theodoros Kolokotronis is the 408th most popular military personnel (up from 448th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Greece (up from 247th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Theodoros Kolokotronis ranks 408 out of 2,058. Before him are Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, La Hire, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Ernst von Mansfeld, and Laskarina Bouboulina. After him are Pierre Augereau, Reinhard Scheer, Henri Guisan, Mitsuru Ushijima, Israel Tal, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, Theodoros Kolokotronis ranks 11. Before him are Bertel Thorvaldsen, Louis-Nicolas Davout, William Wordsworth, François Gérard, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, and Princess Carolina of Parma. After him are Anton Reicha, Manuel Belgrano, George Canning, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, and Pierre Cambronne. Among people deceased in 1843, Theodoros Kolokotronis ranks 7. Before him are Friedrich Hölderlin, William I of the Netherlands, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Noah Webster, Samuel Hahnemann, and Princess Louise Auguste of Denmark. After him are Joseph Lanner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Theodoros Kolokotronis ranks 232 out of 1,024. Before him are Idomeneus of Crete (null), Archidamus II (-450), Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896), Lycurgus of Athens (-390), Antiochus VIII Grypus (-141), and Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217). After him are Corinna (-501), Gazi Husrev-beg (1480), Archelaus (-500), Alexander I of Epirus (-362), Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921), and Timon of Phlius (-320).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Theodoros Kolokotronis ranks 20. Before him are Lysander (-401), Pausanias (null), Desmond Doss (1919), Craterus (-370), Thrasybulus (-440), and Nearchus (-356). After him are George Maniakes (998), Conon (-401), Callimachus (-600), Peucestas (-390), Demosthenes (-412), and Iphicrates (-415).

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