- may mean "the
place with a wide view." In 1881,
Palmer thought that Kh.
Kîâfa meant "the ruin of
tracking foot-steps". The
modern Hebrew name, מבצר האלה...
-
region where the four main
Souliot settlements are
located (Souli, Avariko,
Kiafa, Samoniva).
Souli as a
region is not
attested in any
sources before the...
-
succeeded his
father in the
leadership of the
Souliotes after the
battle of
Kiafa and the
defeat of Ali Pasha,
after which Ali was
forced to
exchange the...
- in the
vicinity of
Kiafa,
forcing the
Souliotes to withdraw. The next day, 1,000 men
under Ali's son
Mukhtar Pasha ****aulted
Kiafa,
seizing the village...
- held
captive by Ali Pasha. The
Souliotes withdrew to the
fortresses of
Kiafa and Kughi,
where they
fought their last
battle on 7
December 1803. The military...
- Souliotes, the
Ottomans had
captured Preveza from Veli, but Ali's fort at
Kiafa resisted their advances. As the
Ottomans continued to advance, Ali was visited...
-
command an
expedition to
bring relief and reinforcements. On his way to
Kiafa, his
expeditionary force met
action with a
Turkish vanguard near the seaside...
-
Moscho Tzavela during the
battle of
Kiafa, July 1792, as
drawn by
Alphonse de Neuville...
- He
became a monk at the
Monastery of the
Entrance of the
Theotokos in
Kiafa-Sklavaina, in the
province of Vonitsa-Xiromero,
where he
became Abbot. He...
-
younger brother, was
killed in Splantza, near the
Souliote fortress of
Kiafa.
Mahmud II
became desperate and
during 1824
called on his Viceroy, Muhammad...
