Dimitrios Varouchas
Dimitrios Varouchas ( Greek Δημήτριος Βαρούχας ; * 1770 in Agios Thomas , Crete ; † March 6, 1811 in Agios Ioannis , Crete) was a Greek freedom fighter. He was also known under the name Logios ( Greek Λόγιος = scholar ).
Life
When he was ten years old, his father Giannis Varouchas was killed by the Ottomans and he fled to his father's brother Ierotheos, who was a monk in the Apezanon monastery near Lendas . When they were driven from there by the Turks, they moved to Padua in Italy . There Dimitrios Varouchas studied medicine and returned to Agios Thomas in 1800 as a doctor.
A janissary killed his sister's husband, Dimitri Kosmadaki. Dimitrios Varouchas avenged the murder and again killed the Janissaries. The Pasha then sent 50 elite janissaries to arrest Varaouchas, but Varaouchas managed to escape.
On March 6, 1811, Dimitrios Varouchas planned to kill the hated Agha of the Janissaries Agriolidis . He made an appointment with his servant Mertzanis that he would leave him at night in his residential tower in Agios Ioannis. But when he entered the tower and climbed the stairs, the servant alerted the guards, who opened fire on him. Varouchas killed the servant and left the place. His leg was so badly injured that he eventually bled to death.
His grave is about a kilometer west of Kalyvia on the road to Tymbaki near the Phaistos archaeological site .
Web links
- Tower of Agriolidis at cretanbeaches.com
- Δημήτριος Λόγιος (1770 - 1811) at logios.gr (Greek)
- Agios Thomas at candia.wordpress.com (Greek)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Varouchas, Dimitrios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Logios; Βαρούχας, Δημήτριος (Greek); Λόγιος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek freedom fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Agios Thomas , Crete |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1811 |
| Place of death | Agios Ioannis , Crete |