Ioannis Notaras (1805 – April 24, 1827)

Ioannis Notaras (1805 – April 24, 1827)

From Corinth in the north-east of the Peloponnese, he was a Greek fighter and General during the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Descendant of an important noble family of Corinth, he was only a young man at the outbreak of the Greek Revolution with only a basic education, nevertheless, during the Revolution he managed to form his own military corps consisting of Peloponnesians and Roumeliotes.

Ioannis Notaras participated in the 2nd Siege of Patra in 1825 and in the defence of Messinia in 1826.

In 1827, heading a force of some 1200 fighters, Notaras headed to Attica to join the forces of Georgios Karaiskakis, firstly at the Battle of Kastella near Piraeus, which saw a Greek victory over the Turks.

The purpose of these campaigns around Attica, were for the Greek forces of Karaiskakis and Notaras, to relieve the other Greek forces which were being besieged by the Turks inside the Acropolis.

This ensuing Battle of Analatos (or Faliro), today a district south of Athens centre, as a campaign ended in disaster for the Greeks, as hundreds of Greeks were killed as was their leader Karaiskakis and Ioannis Notaras, who died 1 day later, he was 22.