Yiannis Pharmakis

Military Person

1772 – 1821

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Who was Yiannis Pharmakis?

Yiannis Pharmakis or Ioannis Farmakis, born in Vlasti, Macedonia, was a Greek revolutionary leader of the Greek War of Independence, active in Wallachia and Moldavia.

Initially a commander of the Princely guard in Bucharest, Pharmakis joined the Philikí Etaireía movement and became an aide to Alexander Ypsilantis, establishing a permanent link with the non-Greek Oltenian Pandurs led by Tudor Vladimirescu. He and Giorgakis Olympios reached an agreement with Tudor in the early months of 1821, but, since the relation between the two factions soured as an effect of Russian and Ottoman Empire intervention, the two decided to arrest Vladimirescu. As the insurgency crumbled under Turkish attacks, Pharmakis retreated to the Secu Monastery in Neamţ county, organising his last stand together with 380 to 500 of his men. Eventually he and his officers surrendered under conditions of general amnesty but the Ottoman troops captured and sent them to Constantinople, where they were publicly executed in 1821.

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Born
1772
Vlasti
Died
1821
Constantinople

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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