Antonios Komizopoulos (

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

: Αντώνιος Κομιζόπουλος) was a 19th-century Greek merchant and the 4th member of

Filiki Eteria Filiki Eteria () or Society of Friends () was a secret political and revolutionary organization founded in 1814 in Odesa, Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule in Ottoman Greece, Greece and establish an Independenc ...

(The Friendly Society).

Biographical elements

Komizopoulos descended from

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. In 1815, while he was in

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, he became a member of

. Three years later—on the initiative of Nikolaos Skoufas—he joined the ''Invisible Authority'' and signed with the letters Α.Ε. He initiated many important people into Filiki Eteria including

Christoforos Perraivos Christoforos Perraivos (; 1773–1863) was a Greek officer of the Greek War of Independence, member of the Filiki Eteria and author. In non-Greek sources his name is usually found as ''Per(r)evo(s).'' Biography Perraivos was born on 3 April 17 ...

and spent much of his wealth for the Greek Revolution.

Emmanuil Xanthos Emmanuil Xanthos (; 1772 – November 28, 1852) was a Greek merchant. He was one of the founders of the Filiki Eteria ("Society of Friends"), a Greek conspiratorial organization which opposed the Ottoman Empire. (''retrieved from University of C ...

saved several of Kozimopoulos' letters both to himself and to others from the organisation.

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Sources

* Papyrus Larousse Britannica, v.29 People from Plovdiv Members of the Filiki Eteria {{Greece-business-bio-stub