Manto Mavrogenous and Laskarina Bouboulina, heroines who fought tirelessly for Greece's Independence — Greek City Times
by GCT
March 25 is a national holiday celebrated throughout Greece. Today Greeks worldwide commemorate Greek Independence Day, which marks the start of the War of Independence. Every single individual who fought for Greece was a hero and today we put the spotlight on two Greek heroines Manto Mavrogenous and Laskarina Bouboulina, who became national heroes after fighting tirelessly for Greece’s independence.
Manto Mavrogenous, a heroine of the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829), was one of the few women who excelled in the war. She was baptised as Magdalene and she was born into a wealthy Greek family, in Trieste, in 1796. Her father, Nicholas Mafrogennis, was a merchant from the Cyclades, and her mother was a Mykonian noble woman named Zacharatos Antonios Hatzis Bati. She was multilingual and kept the records of her husband’s commercial activities. Her father also was a member of the Filiki Eteria, a secret society of the 19th Century, of which she became an active member in 1820.
With the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, she left Tinos, where she had been living after her father’s death in 1818, and moved to Mykonos where she led the rebellion of the island against the Turks. With ships, two of which she had equipped with her own expenses, she pursued the pirates who were ravaging the Cyclades. Later on, she fought several battles in Pelion, in Fthiotida and Livadia. Due to her financial support, her actions in general, as well as her letters to the philhellenic countries of France and England, she became legendary in Europe. Her portrait was printed and published in 1827 all over Europe.
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March 25th, Greek Independence Day!
