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Senator (1847 - 1862) Dimitris 'Koliopoulos' Plapoutas ( el, Δημήτρης Κολιόπουλος Πλαπούτας) (1786 – 1865) was a

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general who fought during the Greek War of Independence against the rule of the

Biography

Plapoutas was born on in Paloumba in the Arcadia region of the Peloponnese,

, the son of Kollias Plapoutas, who came from a strong line of Arvanite Greek Orthodox population from Epirus at the time, in northwestern Greece. This is of course the reason why

Theodoros Kolokotronis Theodoros Kolokotronis ( el, 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. Kolokotronis's g ...

referred to him simply as "Koliopoulos" ( el, Ό Κολιόπουλος). In 1811, he left Paloumba for the Ionian Islands where he became an officer in the 1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry. In 1818, he joined the

Filiki Eteria Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends ( el, Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία ''or'' ) was a secret organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state. (''ret ...

, which was planning to liberate Greece from Ottoman control. During the revolution, Dimitris Plapoutas took part in the

, the capture of the

, the

, the Battle of Maniaki and other battles. After independence, along with General

and General

Kitsos Tzavelas Kyriakos “Kitsos” Tzavelas ( el, Κυριάκος “Κίτσος” Τζαβέλας, 1800–1855) was a Souliot fighter in the Greek War of Independence and later a Hellenic Army General and Prime Minister of Greece. Early years and Greek ...

, Plapoutas supported Prince Otto of Bavaria as the King of Greece. However, later he opposed the Bavarian-dominated regency during his rule. He was charged with high treason and on 7 June 1834 he was imprisoned at the

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along with Kolokotronis and both sentenced to death and both later pardoned in 1835. Plapoutas then became involved in Greek politics and served in Parliament (1844–1847) and in the Senate (1847–1862). He was made an honorary bodyguard of King Otto and was entrusted with escorting him to his new kingdom. Plapoutas also had a brother, Georgios, who fought alongside him in many battles and died in the Battle of Lalas. When he was around seventy years old, Plapoutas married a woman in her thirties and had one child, a girl named Athanasia. Plapoutas died shortly afterwards. His house still stands (albeit heavily damaged from an earthquake during the 1960s) in his home town of

, Arcadia.

Gallery

File:Aythentiki.jpg, A photograph of Plapoutas in the

uniform. File:Plapoutas castle.jpg, House of Plapoutas File:Ottobrunn Dimitris Plapoutas bust.JPG, Plapoutas bust in Ottobrunn, Germany

References

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