Konstantinos Metaxas [SEP] conflict
Konstantinos Metaxas
Konstantinos Metaxas (, 1793–1870) was a Greek fighter of the Greek War of Independence and politician from Cephalonia.
Biography.
Biography Origin and activity in the War of Independence.
He was born in Argostoli in 1793, as one of the four children of Nicholas Metaxas and Diamantina Andritsi. He studied law in Italy and returning to Cephalonia he worked as a lawyer. On the eve of the Greek Revolution he was initiated into the Filiki Eteria and in cooperation with the local archbishop Germanos, he organized the
was formed on 9 September, but only after Count Konstantinos Chorafas was given plenipotentiary powers and a force of Russian troops was the unrest suppressed. This peace did not last long, and a revolt under the nobleman Efstathios Metaxas broke out in May 1801. In response, the Imperial Commissioners came to the island to mediate in the conflict and established a 22-member Committee of Public Safety, with themselves and Colonel Nikolaos Pierris as chairmen. In the end Metaxas' revolt was subdued by a compromise reached by Ioannis Kapodistrias: the previous government