Siege of Tripolitsa

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Siege of Tripolitsa
Part of the Greek War of Independence
Scene of the siege of Tripolitsa
Date April–23 September 1821 Location Tripoli, Morea Eyalet, Ottoman Empire (now Arcadia, Greece) Result Greek victory Capture of Tripoli Eradication of the town's Muslim and Jewish population
Belligerents
Greek Revolutionaries	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Theodoros Kolokotronis Dimitris Plapoutas Anagnostaras Panagiotis Kefalas Alexandros Kantakouzinos Maxime Raybaud	Mustafa Bey
Strength
10,000	12,000
Casualties and losses
100 killed or wounded[1]	8,000 killed, wounded, or captured
6,000–15,000 Muslim and Jewish civilians killed[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

The siege of Tripolitsa or fall of Tripolitsa (Greek: Άλωση της Τριπολιτσάς, romanized: Álosi tis Tripolitsás, Greek pronunciation: [ˈalosi tis tripoliˈt͡sas]), also known as the Tripolitsa massacre (Turkish: Tripoliçe katliamı), was an early victory of the revolutionary Greek forces in the summer of 1821 during the Greek War of Independence, which had begun earlier that year, against the Ottoman Empire. Tripolitsa was an important target, because it was the administrative center of the Ottomans in the Peloponnese.

Following the capture of the city by the Greek revolutionary forces, a massacre of its Muslim and Jewish population occurred.