It was in 1481 when Krokodeilos Kladas and the Maniot fighters revolted. They reached as far as Epirus and liberated the region of Himara. Unassisted by the West, which had encouraged him, Kladas was captured nine years later and flayed alive.
In 1489, the last of the Byzantine imperial house, Andreas Palaiologos, raised the revolutionary flag in Ottoman-occupied Greece. From 1492, the revolutionary wind took the form of a crusade, allied with Charles VIII of France. Five thousand revolutionaries liberated Epirus and a large part of Thessaly. The struggle was so powerful (writes Konstantinos Sathas) that the Turks "withdrew from the coasts and prepared to abandon Constantinople." However, a coalition of Christian states allied against Charles, who was forced to return to France. Left helpless, the Greeks were mercilessly slaughtered. By 1496, the revolution had died out.




















