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Klepht logo #10101) Guerrilla
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Klepht logo #21000 Klephts (Greek: κλέφτης, pl. κλέφτες - kleftis, kleftes, which means `thief` - and maybe originally meant just `brigand`) were highwaymen that turned self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire. They were the descendants of ...
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klepht logo #21003(from the article `armatole`) ...they made treaties with the local armatoles, allowing them to continue in their police functions. Other Greeks, taking to the mountains, became ... ...war of 1768–74. These uprisings had little chance of success, but throughout the centuries of the Tourkokratia there was a kind of armed ... ...go...
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klepht logo #21199a Greek or Albanian brigand, exalted in the war of Greek independence as a patriotic robber; guerrilla.
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