Rigas Feraios

Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios. Portrait by
Andreas Kriezis (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Born1757
Died24 June 1798(1798-06-24) (aged 40–41)
EraAge of Enlightenment
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolModern Greek Enlightenment
Main interests
Popular sovereignty, civil liberties, constitutional state, freedom of religion, civic nationalism
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Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίος pronounced [ˈriɣas fɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu[1]) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced [vɛlɛstinˈlis], also transliterated Velestinles); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρήγας Βελεστινλής),[2] was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment. A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece.

  1. ^ Caracota, Nicolas (October–December 2009). "Di iu, di cându, di cari?". Fârshârotu (in Aromanian). Vol. 6, no. 30. p. 3.
  2. ^ Ρήγας Βελεστινλής