Rigas Feraios
(1757-1798)
Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary
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Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίος sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής 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. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece.
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1757 (now Greece)
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1798 (aged 40) (now Serbia)
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