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          He specialised in portraiture.

        1. He specialised in portraiture.
        2. Rigas Feraios and Greek Independence.
        3. NEW YORK – For many in the Greek community, Rigas Feraios (Velestinlis) is probably best known as a proto-martyr in the Greek Revolution.
        4. Notable among them was Rigas Feraios, a teacher who worked tirelessly organizing an uprising of the enslaved people of the Balkans.
        5. On 19 March , he gave a lecture at the Great.

          6. NEW YORK – For many in the Greek community, Rigas Feraios (Velestinlis) is probably best known as a proto-martyr in the Greek Revolution.!

          Rigas Feraios

          Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary (1757–1798)

          This article is about Greek writer and revolutionary.

          For other uses, see Rigas Feraios (disambiguation).

          Rigas Feraios (Greek: Ρήγας Φεραίοςpronounced[ˈriɣasfɛˈrɛɔs], sometimes Rhegas Pheraeos; Aromanian: Riga Fereu[1]) or Velestinlis (Βελεστινλής pronounced[vɛlɛstinˈlis], also transliterated Velestinles); 1757 – 24 June 1798), born as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρήγας Βελεστινλής),[2] was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment.

          A victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence, Rigas Feraios is today remembered as a national hero in Greece.

          Early life

          Rigas Feraios was born in 1757 as Antonios Rigas Velestinlis[2] into a wealthy family in the village of Velestino in the Sanjak of Tirhala, Ottoman Empire (moder