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Dimitrios Indares (Dimitrakis Indares)[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Dimitrios Indares (Dimitrakis Indares) was a fighter of the Revolution of 1821.[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Biography[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
He was born in Leivartzi or Livartzi of Achaia around 1777. A descendant of a family expatriated from Mystras or Sparta (family name: Papadopoulos), he was named Idares from the Turkish idare (= administration, direction, management). Thus: Idares (= commander, chief of a military corps) [1]. Until the final adoption of his surname, he signed as Spiliopoulos (son of Spilios).
As a young man he went to Zakynthos, where he joined the British Army for a short time. There he was initiated into the Filiki Eteria and then undertook the initiation of the 33 villages of the area Leivarzi-Kapeli [2]. On March 16, 1821, he organized the attack against the Turks of Mostenitsa and set fire to the tower of the Turk-Albanian landowner from Lalas, Elmaz, where he found plenty of ammunition, part of which he contributed to the siege of the towers of Kalavrita. This fact is probably the first attack at the beginning of the revolution against an inhabited settlement, since the attack to the city of Kalavrita and Kalamata took place later. [3]
At the battle of Pyrgos, on April 3, 1821, the leader of a group from Kalavrita, hurried to strengthen the defense of the rebels under Charalambos Vilaetis against the attack of the numerous Turk-Albanians of Lala.
While the Lalaians had already entered the city looting and destroying, and the body-to-body conflict was now raging in the area of Agios Charalambos (Kanoulia), the attack of the people of Kalavrita took the Turks by surprise. They hitting them from the back, and forced them to withdraw, hence lessening the losses of the heroically fighting locals and their supporters [4].
He offered great services in the battle of Lala, at Pushi, where, among other things, he provided the tools, with which ditches in which the soldiers were fortified, were opened. He showed great zeal as he went alone from outpost to outpost, expecting a night attack from the Turks. [5]
In the battle of Agios Vlasis (July 1827), as the leader of a group of Leivartzin people, he contributed to the effort of Th. Kolokotronis, to bring back the subjugated villages of Achaia to the battle. Led by Vassilios Petimezas, Dagres from Argos and Intares, with a total of 1100 men, were attacked by 6,000 Turks under Delis Ahmet command and 2,000 subjugators under D. Nenekos’s command. Indares was seriously injured.[6]
His activity is also mentioned in other military operations: in Patras, Akrata, Alonistaina, Piana, Chrepa, Kremasti (Monemvasia), Gerakovouni.
In 1825 the Provisional Administration promoted him to chiliarch. After the end of the war, he became an officer of the Phalanx, with his final promotion on August 27, 1845 to the rank of Captain.
He is registered in the Archive of the Struggle Committee (EBE) as Spiliopoulos / Indares, with several reports on his activities and important signatures.
In a memorandum that Indares submitted to Otto of Greece in 1844, he includes a brief chronicle of his participation in the war but also of his subsequent activity in the community of the wider area of Kalavrita. The memorandum is in the General Archives of the State [7].
His grandson was Lambros Indares.
Extras[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
The arson of the tower of Elmaz or Limaz Agha in Mostenitsa also was a means of punishing the Turk-Albanian, for the abduction of his cousin Eleni, daughter of the lord of the area and his uncle, Mr. Christodoulos Papadopoulos [8]. The romance of the foreigners Limaz and Eleni around the year 1800, was a major local issue and then a legend, which survived as a folk song with various variations [9].
Refrences[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
- ↑ Konstantinos D. Bitas 1976, p. 208
- ↑ Athanasios Theod. Lelos 1953 p.126
- ↑ Tsotos G. Ioannis 1966, p.126
- ↑ George Arist. Chrysanthakopoulos 1950, p.168-170
- ↑ Fotios Chrysanthopoulos-Fotakos 1888, p.31
- ↑ Athanasios Theod. Lelos 1953, p.164
- ↑ Konstantinos D. Bitas 1976, p.199-108
- ↑ Pericles P. Doudoumis 1941, p. 74-75
- ↑ «Νεοελληνική μυθολογία. Στα ίχνη της "Ελένης/Αγιαλένης", τραγούδια: "Ελμαζαγας και Ελένη" (Λιβάρτζι Καλαβρύτων)».
Sources[Επεξεργασία | επεξεργασία κώδικα]
- Fotios Chrysanthopoulos-Fotakos, Βίοι Πελοποννησίων ανδρών και των εξώθεν εις την Πελοπόννησον ελθόντων κληρικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών των αγωνισαμένων τον αγώνα της επαναστάσεως, 1888. Retrived April 10, 2010
- Konstantinos D. Bitas, Ανέκδοτον υπόμνημα του αγωνιστού Δημητράκη Σπήλιου Ινταρέ. Επετηρίς Καλαβρύτων, vol. 8, 1976
- Pericles P. Doudoumis, Ιστορία της κωμοπόλεως Λειβαρζίου των Καλαβρύτων, Αθήνα, 1941
- Athanasios Theod. Lelos, Ιστορία αρχαίας Ψωφίδος και Λειβαρζίου, Αθήνα, 1953
- George Arist. Chrysanthakopoulos, Η Ηλεία επί Τουρκοκρατίας, Αθήνα, 1950