Filiki Eteria
Secret society
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Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends was a secret political and revolutionary organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek State. Wikipedia
Founders: Emmanuil Xanthos, Nikolaos Skoufas, and Athanasios Tsakalov
Founded: September 14, 1814, Odesa, Ukraine
Key people: Nikolaos Galatis, Germanos III of Old Patras, and Emmanouel Pappas
Headquarters: Odessa; Constantinople (from 1818)