Staikos Staikopoulos [SEP] conflict
Staikos Staikopoulos
Staikos Staikopoulos (Greek Στάικος Σταϊκόπουλος, 1799-1835) was a participant in the Greek War of Independence.
Biography.
Staikopoulos was born at Zatouna, Gortynia, in Arcadia and from an early age was involved in the fur trade. On the island of Hydra, where he went in 1818, he was recruited to the Filiki Eteria by Nikolaos Speliotopoulos.
In 1821, upon the outbreak of the war, he raised his own company of troops and departed Hydra for Argos. He began at
.
The name Zatouna is of Arabic origin from Zaituna, and means olive. It origins are from the Ottoman Empire when there were cultivation of olive trees in the area.
People.
Zatouna is the birthplace of Staikos Staikopoulos, who laid siege to the castle of Palamidi in 1821 while it was under Turkish control. The Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis was banished to the village in 1968 by the military junta.
Famous Greek actor Mimis Fotopoulos (1913–1986) was born in Zatouna.
See also.
-