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After the fall of Constantinople (present day Istanbul ), the Ottoman Turkish Empire occupied Greece from 1453 to 1829. Set in the year 1790 in the Taygetos Mountains of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece , the story recounts the tale of eleven-years-old Giorgi and his family. Elite agents of the Ottoman Sultan's Janissary Corps murder his parents and Giorgi longs for revenge. As teenagers, together with his younger brother Yianni, they leave their aunt's home and climb the higher, craggy mountains, seeking to join forces with their childhood hero and guerrilla leader, Kapetan Zaharias, and his outlawed Greek freedom fighters. Ensconced in deep caves, they live and train to battle the Turks. Tragic events continue to shadow Giorgi in his endeavor to fight the Turks. Residing in the valleys below, the overworked and overtaxed peasants are left to fend for themselves, laboring long hours in the fields to feed their families, and to pay their taxes. Under Turkish rule, Greece was mired in abject poverty. The Turkish pashas ruled with a combination of laxity (change your Christian religion and pay no taxes) or by extortion, (pay the right person and you are left alone.) Other

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Author

Pauline Hager

Publisher

Infinity Publishing (PA)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780741460349

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14