Qualla: Battle of Karpenisi https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Karpenisi https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi Battle of Karpenisi: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit Ιωάννης Πρωτονοτάριος This image was created with Photoshop Photomerge (stitched images may differ from reality)., CC BY-SA 3.0. By the summer of 1823, the Greek War of Independence was two years old and in a precarious position. The Greeks had held off Ottoman attempts to crush the revolt, but the empire was reorganizing. Sultan Mahmud II devised a plan for 1823 that would send a large army through the western side of central Greece rather than the more expected eastern route, striking toward the Peloponnese through Patras. Command of this expedition went to Mustafa Bushati, the Albanian pasha of Shkodër, who assembled a force at Ohrid — sources put its size at somewhere between 8,000 and 13,000 Albanian mercenaries — and marched south through July. The Ottoman-Albanian column moved through the Pindus Mountains, arrived at Trikala, and encamped at Karpenisi. It was there, in the highlands of Evrytania, that the Souliote captain Markos Botsaris decided to meet them.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/sqzq-battle-of-karpenisi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Karpenisi: Who Botsaris Was https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit Ιστορικό Αρχείο Ευγενίας Αντωνίου Σκιαθά, CC BY-SA 4.0. Markos Botsaris came from the Souliot clans, a group of Albanian-speaking Orthodox Christians from the mountains of Epirus who had built a fierce reputation as fighters in the decades before the revolution. The Souliotes had resisted Ali Pasha of Ioannina, the powerful Albanian w...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/sqzq-battle-of-karpenisi-who-botsaris-was.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Karpenisi: The March to Karpenisi https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit Eugène Delacroix, Public domain. Botsaris left Missolonghi with 350 men. As he moved northeast through the mountains toward Karpenisi, he gathered additional fighters — Greek revolutionaries who recognized both the threat and the opportunity that Mustafa's encamped army represented. By the time he reached the ar...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/sqzq-battle-of-karpenisi-the-march-to-karpenisi.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Karpenisi: The Night of August 21 https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit George Terezakis, CC BY-SA 2.0. The assault came on the night of August 21, 1823. Greek forces moved into the Ottoman-Albanian camp under cover of darkness. The raid inflicted significant casualties on a force that substantially outnumbered the attackers. The operation demonstrated exactly the kind of tactical ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/sqzq-battle-of-karpenisi-the-night-of-august-21.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Karpenisi: What Came After https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit MartinVMtl, CC BY-SA 3.0. The military consequences of the battle played out over the following months. The Ottoman-Albanian army, despite the disruption at Karpenisi, continued its campaign and moved against Missolonghi, laying siege to the town. That siege, the second of Missolonghi, ultimately failed. ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/z/q/battle-of-karpenisi-wp/sqzq-battle-of-karpenisi-what-came-after.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Karpenisi: Memory and the Town Square https://qualla.com/battle-of-karpenisi/ Photo credit Publisher: Χρωμολιθογραφείον Ε. Λοβέρδου & Γ. Γρύσπου (1893-ca. 1914), Public domain. Markos Botsaris has not been forgotten in the place where he died. Karpenisi has a square named for him, and the town has maintained a civic connection to Missolonghi — the place he came from — across two centuries. In August 2022, the municipalities of Karpenisi and Missolonghi ...

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