page_title: Mavromichalis family
section_title: Fame and glory
hierarchical_section_title: Mavromichalis family / Fame and glory
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Petrobeis Mavromichalis in Areopoli.Türkçe: Yunan isyanında Kalamata'yı Osmanlı idaresinden alan ve Mani'yi, Osmanlılara karşı savunan Petrobeis Mavromichalis'in Areopoli şehrinde bulunan heykeli.
context_page_description: The Mavromichalis family is a prominent clan from Mani Peninsula, which played a major role in modern Greek history.
context_section_description: The first renowned Mavromichalis leader is the 18th descendant of the orphan boy, Georgios Mavromichalis who was the hegemon of a rebellion that took place on the Peloponnisos peninsula sponsored by Count Orlov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. Together with his sons Ilias-Pierros Mavromichalis and Ioannis "Skilogiannis" Mavromichalis he guided Maniot soldiers to victory over the Turks and their Albanian allies.
  Another notable member of the family was a son of Skilogiannis Mavromichalis who is known as Şükür Mehmet Bey. Bey was captured during battle and decided to embrace Islam and become a renegade, eventually becoming an Ottoman Fleet admiral. Although considered a traitor to his motherland and religion Şükür was vital in lobbying for the appointment of his cousin Petros "Petrobey" Mavromichalis as the head of state of the Beylik of Mani by the Sublime Porte.
  Petrobey Mavromichalis, with support from the leading families of Peloponnisos made the Maniot state and the Mavromichalis family in particular powerful enough to control sizable swaths of territory on the Peloponnisos peninsula and protected them from Greek rebels and Albanian raiders at the encouragement of the Sultan.
  However Petrobey's ultimate goal was the freedom of Greek's from Ottoman rule and used his local power and autonomy to build support for a large scale Greek rebellion. In 1821 this rebellion formally began in what would become the Greek War for Independence. He was known as a dealmaker and voluntarily ceded leadership of the rebellion to Theodoros Kolokotronis when it became politically necessary. He contributed vital contingents of troops to liberate Kalamata and Tripolis and participated in the expedition to help the Souliotes. On this expedition Petrobey's young brother Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis heroically died fighting the Turks. Under the leadership of Petrobey and his brother Konstantinos Mavromichalis, Greek forces successfully defeated renowned Ottoman commander Ibrahim Pasha during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani. This military victory secured Greek control of the strategically important city of Nafplio which, after the revolution, would become the first capital city of the modern Greek state.
  After the revolution, Petrobey and his brother Tzanis Mavromichalis were arrested and imprisoned on charges of high treason as a result of stark political disagreements with Greece's first head of state, Ioannis Kapodistrias. In response to their imprisonment, Petrobey's brother Konstantinos and son Georgios Mavromichalis assassinated Ioannis Kapodistrias.
caption: Monument of Petros Mavromichalis in Areopoli
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