Filiki Eteria

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Filiki Eteria

Society of Friends
Φιλική Εταιρεία
Insignia of the Filiki Eteria
Formation	September 14, 1814; 209 years ago (September 14, 1814)
Founder	Emmanuil Xanthos Nikolaos Skoufas Athanasios Tsakalov
Founded at	Odessa, Russian Empire
Type	Secret Society Revolutionary Organisation
Purpose	Instigate the Greek War of Independence Overthrow Ottoman rule from the Balkans Establish an independent Greek state
Headquarters	Odessa Constantinople (from 1818)
Region	Ottoman Empire Rumelia Eyalet Danubian Principalities
Fields	Greek nationalism
Leader	Alexandros Ypsilantis
Key people	Nikolaos Galatis Alexandros Mavrokordatos Theodoros Kolokotronis Anthimos Gazis Germanos III of Old Patras Emmanouel Pappas

Filiki Eteria (Greek: Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία, romanized: Filikī́ Etaireía) or Society of Friends (Greek: Ἑταιρεία τῶν Φιλικῶν, romanized: Etaireía tôn Filikôn) was a secret political and revolutionary organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek State.^[1] Society members were mainly young Phanariot Greeks from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, local political and military leaders from the Greek mainland and islands, as well as several Orthodox Christian leaders from other nations that were under Hellenic influence, such as Karađorđe from Serbia,^[2] and Tudor Vladimirescu from Romania.^[3] One of its leaders was the prominent Phanariote Prince Alexander Ypsilantis.^[4] The Society initiated the Greek War of Independence in the spring of 1821.^[5]