Filiki Eteria
Sign in to saveAlso known as Philikē Hetaireia, Filiki Ėterii͡a, Hetaireia tōn Philikōn, Philikí Etaireia, Society of Friends
19th-century secret society opposing Ottoman rule in Greece
Key facts
- Formation
- 14 September 1814 ; 211 years ago ( 14 September 1814 )
- Founder
- Emmanuil Xanthos Nikolaos Skoufas Athanasios Tsakalov
- Founded at
- Odessa , Russian Empire
- Type
- Secret society , Revolutionary organisation
- Purpose
- Instigate the Greek War of Independence Overthrow Ottoman rule from the Balkans Establish an independent Greek state
- Headquarters
- Odessa , Constantinople (from 1818)
- Region served
- Ottoman Empire Rumelia Eyalet Danubian Principalities
- Fields
- Greek nationalism
- Leader
- Alexandros Ypsilantis
- Key people
- Nikolaos Galatis Alexandros Mavrokordatos Theodoros Kolokotronis Anthimos Gazis Germanos III of Old Patras Emmanouel Pappas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political organization
- Founded by
- Emmanuil Xanthos
- Headquarters
- Istanbul
- Location
- Odesa
- Image
- Filiki Eteria flag.svg
- Political ideology
- Greek nationalism
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- motto
- Freedom or death
- Commons category
- Filiki Etaireia
- inception
- 1814-09-26
- location of formation
- Odesa
- topic's main category
- Category:Filiki Eteria
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1822-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Filiki Eteria (Greek: Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία, romanized: Filikī́ Etaireía) or Society of Friends (Greek: Ἑταιρεία τῶν Φιλικῶν, romanized: Etaireía tôn Filikôn) was a secret political and revolutionary organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and establish an independent Greek State. Society members were mainly young Phanariot Greeks from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, local political and military leaders from the Greek mainland and islands, as well as several Orthodox Christian leaders from other nations that were under Hellenic influence, such as Karađorđe from Serbia, and Tudor Vladimirescu from Romania. One of its leaders was the prominent Phanariote Prince Alexander Ypsilantis. The Society initiated the Greek War of Independence in the spring of 1821.
Translations and transliterations
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Filiki Eteria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.