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Dimitris Koliopoulos Plapoutas (
Greek:
Δημήτρης Πλαπούτας) (also known as Dimitrios and Dimitrakis) (
May 15,
1786 -
1864) was a Greek General who fought during the
Greek War of Independence against the rule of the
Ottoman Empire.
He was born on
May 15,
1786 in
Paloumba,
Arcadia, the son of Kollias Plapoutas, an
Armatolos. In 1811 he left Paloumba for the
Ionian Islands where he became an officer in the
British army. In
1818, he joined the
Filiki Eteria, which was planning to liberate Greece from Ottoman control.
During the revolution, Dimitris Plapoutas took part in the Siege of
Tripoli, the capture of the castle at
Korinthos, the Battle of Valtetsi, the Battle of Maniaki and other battles.
After independence, in
1833, along with General
Theodoros Kolokotronis and General
Kitsos Tzavelas, Plapoutas supported
Prince Otto of Bavaria as the King of Greece. However, later he opposed the Bavarian-dominated regency during his rule. He was charged with high treason and on June 7,
1834 he was imprisoned at the
Palamidi along with Kolokotronis and sentenced to death. He was later pardoned in 1835. Plapoutas then became involved in Greek politics and served in Parliament (
1844 -
1847) and in the Senate (
1847 -
1862). He was made an honorary bodyguard of King Otto and was entrusted with escorting him to his new kingdom.
When he was around seventy years old, Plapoutas married a woman in her thirties and had one child, a girl named Athanasia. Plapoutas died shortly after in
1864.
Plapoutas also had a brother, Giorgios, who fought alongside him in many battle and died in the Battle of Lalas.
His house still stands (albeit heavily damaged from a 1960s Earthquake) in his home town of
Paloumba,
Arcadia.
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