March 1821… the Greeks raise their stature with excess bravery and bravery in the 400 -year -old Turkish conqueror. Crete, with little weapons and difficulties in communicating with the rest of Greece, counts on its own strong presence in the race two months later. The March 1821 revolution by the Greeks becomes a “wick”, which once again lit the flame of freedom, in the Cretan consciousness.

Speaking to RES-EIA, the Doctor of History of the Education of the University of Ioannina George Kalogerakis states that the beginning of the 1821 revolution in Crete is the starting point of the areas of Sfakia, Glyka Nera, Loutro and Panagia Thymiani. “The Sfakians, disobedient throughout the Turkish occupation (1845-1821), with a total destruction of their province in the Revolution of Daskalogiannis in 1770 and his horrible end to Heraklion in 1771, in four meetings, in the months of April and May 18.”

In the Glyka Nera on April 7, 1821, in Loutro on April 15 and May 21, 1821 and at Panagia Thymiani, the so -called “Agia Lavra” of Crete, on May 29, 1821. The choice of May 29th, is in line with May 29, 1453, when the “Ottomans”. Friendly, villagers and monks, leading the Cretan uprising. However, despite the harsh reaction of the Ottomans, nothing can erase the flame that has lit up in the soul of the Cretans.

‘So her first battle Revolution in Crete, given to the village of Loulos, Chania on June 14, 1821 » Mr Kalogerakis said, explaining that all of Crete had been liberated until May 1822, when the helpless to subdue the Turks revolution, they sought help from Egyptian Mohammed Ali who decided and sent Hassan’s groom to the island.

Indeed, in the iconic work of the Greek nation in the volume the Greek Revolution, the arrival of Hassan Pasha in Crete is described as follows:

“Tuesday, May 28, 1822. Arrival of the Egyptian fleet in Souda with 114 ships. Thirty (30) Egyptian and eighty -four (84) French. The French were trucks and transport. Head of the Egyptian army is the groom of Egyptian regent Mohammed Ali Hassan Pasha. The power of the army was 10,000 men (Albanians and Egyptians) and 500 horsemen. “

According to the doctorate of the history of the Education of the University of Ioannina, the battles in Crete throughout the revolution were fierce, as was the cruelty that the Libra that the Cretans endured was. According to Mr. Kalogerakis, it is estimated that during the years of the revolution, they died about one -third of the Cretans, while others are estimated to be able to withstand the yoke and slavery, moved to Greece after the end of the revolution.

After all, the Great, despite the blood tax and the sacrifices of the Cretans, was not incorporated into the new Greek state. It had nearly 60 more extra years of slavery and a series of revolutions, with the slogan “Union or Death”. Revolutions such as that of 1833, 1841, 1866-69, 1877-78, 1881, 1889 and 1895 -97. Games on struggles, battles on battles, until the founding of the Cretan state that lasted as a transitional stage for about 15 years. It was the last act, before the great moment, came in 1913, when Crete united with the rest of Greece, giving the Cretans, what they longed for their own freedom.

However, among the heroic forms of leaders and chieftains who emerged during the years of the race in Crete and there were many, including Vassilis Halis, Ioannis Papadogeorgakis, Papadantreas, Moutsogiannis, Sifakas, Vardoulimanos, Vardoulimanos Bikostratis, Kostopoulos, Ioannis Drouliskis, Manolis Roustikianos, Roussos Vourdoumbas, Michalis and Dimitris Kourmoulis, Michael Korakas, Emmanouil Kazanis, Xopateras, Georgios Tsoudos Tselepis, Pope Yiannis Skordilis, Panagiotou, Mavrothalassitis, Valest, Ioannis Moschovitis, Frangios Kariotis, P. Zervoudakis, A. Protopapadakis, Sifis Konstantoudakis Rodanthi from Kritsa Merambellou and Epirus Hatzimichalis Dalianis.