User:Kyriakos

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“ "The Maniots' chief occupation is piracy and their largest trade, the captives. Oitylo is called big Algiers. They take take prisoners everywhere, selling Christians to Turks and Turks to Christians. They enjoy relating proudly their piratical raids, and they pointed out to me one of their most notorious pirates as a man who had reached the very pinnacle of quality." ”
 
— Da la Guilletiere, De la Guilletiere on the Maniots.

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Hey everyone, my name is Kyriakos. I live in Melbourne, Australia and I am a proud Greek. My interests mainly have to do with military history, where I contribute to WP:MILHIST and am a assistant coordinator. I am also interested in Greece as well as football and cricket. I enjoy helping others so please ask me if you have any queries or questions.

[edit] Feature Content

Featured articleCretan War. It was my first major article and after 5 months of working on it, it became FA on the 25 November 2006.
Featured articleWar against Nabis. It was my second major article and after three months of work it achieved FA on the 17 Feburary 2007.
Featured articlePortal:Military of Greece. The first portal I had created and worked on and after 11 months of work it was promoted to a WP:FPOon the 8 November 2007.
Featured articleBattle of Dyrrhachium (1081). My first FA not to involve Hellenistic Greece and the first one that I re-wrote. After 4 months working on it, it was promoted on the 23 December 2007.

[edit] A-class articles

A-class articleCleomenean War. A little known war that ended any chance of Spartan supremacy of the Peloponnese became A-class on the 2 October 2007.
A-class articleBattle of the Kalka River. I rewrote this article in March-April 2008. It is my first GA+ article that does not have to do with Greece and it passed its A-class review on the 5 May 2008.

[edit] Good Articles

Good articleEgyptian Invasion of Mani. An important article for me became GA on the 7 March 2007.
Good articleManiots. For me this is a special article it talks about my kinsmen. I re-wrote it during January and it achieved GA status on the 2 April 2007.
Good articleBattle of Gythium. I created this article a while back and it passed it's GAC on the 3 April 2007.
Good articleSiege of Eretria. A little known battle of the Persian War which preceeded the Battle of Marathon by a few days. I started this article in Janurary and it passed it's GAC on the 29 July 2007.
Good articleGalatian War. A little known campaign by the Romans and the Pergamese against the Gauls of Asia Minor. I started this article in July and it passed it's GAC on the 23 September 2007.

[edit] Did You Know?

1...an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women of Diroduring the Egyptian Invasion of Maniin 1826?
2...that the Maniot pirate, Limberakis Gerakaris, was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?

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