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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- younger brother, was killed in Splantza, near the Souliote fortress of Kiafa. Mahmud II became desperate and during 1824 called on his Viceroy, Muhammad...
- 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...