Panos Bitsilis
Panos Bitzilis (Greek: Πάνος Μπιτζίλης) was an 18th-century General Consul of Russia in Albania and Himara[1][2]
Panos Bitsilis came from Himarë, modern Albania, then Ottoman Empire. Bitzilis clan was among the notable Greek[2] clans that provided diplomats to the Russian Empire in the 18th century.[2] Moreover it also provided several officers to the Regimento Cimarioto (Himariote regiment)[3] of the Venetian army as well as for the Albanskoe Volsko and the Odesskii Grecheskii Divizion Russian army.[4]
Being an influential personality, he became the Russian consul in Albania and Himara, in the 1780s.[5] During the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) together with Loudovikos Sotiris from Lefkada, became the revolutionary leaders of an uprising in Epirus against the Ottomans.[6] He was also probably member of the Greek patriotic organization Filiki Eteria.[5]
References
- ↑ byli nazvany major grek L. Sotiri i podpolkovnik albanec P. Bicilli... (Grigorij L. Arš: Èteristkoe dviženie v Rossii: Osvobodit. bor'ba greč. naroda v načale XIX v. i rus.-greč. svjazi [Heterist Movement in Russia: Struggle of the Greek People for Independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century and Greek-Russian relations]; p. 85.)[1]
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