Athanasios Diakos

General

Athanasios Diakos
Αθανάσιος Διάκος
General; Athanasios Diakos; Αθανάσιος Διάκος
	Portrait by Dionysios Tsokos
Native name	Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας
Birth name	Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas
Nickname(s)	Diakos (Deacon); Διάκος
Born	1788 or 1791; Ano Mousounitsa or Artotina, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died	24 April 1821 (aged 30 or 33); Lamia, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Allegiance	Revolutionary Greece
Service/branch	Hellenic Army
Years of service	1821
Rank	General (posthumously)
Commands held	Commander of his armed band
Wars	Greek War of Independence Battle of Alamana ; ;
Memorials	Athanasios Diakos (village); and others
Other work	Monk; Member of the Filiki Etaireia

Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas or Grammatikos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Νικόλαος Μασσαβέτας-Γραμματικός; 1788 – 24 April 1821) also known as Athanasios Diakos (Greek: Αθανάσιος Διάκος) was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence, considered a venerable national hero in Greece.

^ Bopis, Dimitris (2007). "Αθανάσιος Διάκος, ο πρώτος μάρτυρας του αγώνα" [Athanasios Diakos, the first martyr of the struggle]. Στρατιωτική Ιστορία ("Military History") (in Greek). Περισκόπιο ("Periskopio") (128): 11.

[1] Bopis, Dimitris (2007). "Αθανάσιος Διάκος, ο πρώτος μάρτυρας του αγώνα" [Athanasios Diakos, the first martyr of the struggle]. Στρατιωτική Ιστορία ("Military History") (in Greek). Περισκόπιο ("Periskopio") (128): 11.

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