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- Title
DESPRE O CĂPETENIE DE ARNAUȚI DIN ȚARA ROMÂNEASCĂ LA 1821: DIAMANDI GIUVARA.
- Authors
NEAGOE, CLAUDIU-ION
- Abstract
Among the significant Arnauts leaders at the beginning of the year 1821, one of note was Diamandi (Iamandi) Giuvara serdar, a faithful servant of the last Phanariot rulers of Wallachia, Ioan Gheorghe Caragea (1812-1818) and Alexandru Suțu (1819-1821), a "soldier" as he would call himself, during the extremely tumultuous and revolutionary events of the spring of 1821. Coming from the south of the Danube, most likely at the beginning of Ioan Gheorghe Caragea's rule, this Albanian had joined the ranks of the Arnauts, Balkan mercenaries in the service of the Phanariot prince, becoming the commander of all gendarme companies in the Oltenia region. This character gained fame in the fall of 1816, after the capture of the notorious outlaws Nikola Abraš and Iancu Jianu. At the beginning of the revolutionnary year 1821, we find him leading a company of Arnauts alongside sluger Tudor Vladimirescu, the initiator of the Romanian revolutionary movement in Wallachia. After the defeat of the Eterist troops by the Ottoman forces in the battle of Drăgășani (7/19 June 1821), in which Diamandi Giuvara refused to participate, we will find him and his Arnauts resisting an Ottoman siege within the fortified walls of Cozia Monastery. Finally convinced by the empty promises of binbashi Sava, another Arnaut leader who had willingly entered the service of the Turks, Diamandi Giuvara surrendered to the commander of the Ottoman military forces that had taken over Wallachia, with the promise of being pardoned for his previous actions. However, as soon as he was brought to Constantinople, Diamandi Giuvara was executed in the public square.
- Subjects
WALLACHIA; ISTANBUL (Turkey); OLTENIA (Romania); ARMED Forces; POLICE; MONASTERIES; TURKS; PARDON; MILITARY personnel
- Publication
Review of Military History, 2023, Issue 5/6, p3
- ISSN
1220-5710
- Publication type
Article