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Demetrios Ypsilantis
Demetrios Ypsilantis
(also spelt using
Dimitrios
,
Demetrius
and/or
Ypsilanti
; ; ; 1793August 16, 1832) was a
dragoman
of the
Ottoman Empire
, served as an officer in the
Imperial Russian Army
in
Moldavia
and was appointed as
modern Greece
's first Field Marshal by
Ioannis Kapodistrias
, a hero of the
Greek War of Independence
. Ypsilantis was the brother of
Alexander Ypsilantis
, a leader of
Filiki Eteria
.
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