Epameinondas Deligiorgis (Greek: Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγιώργης) (January 10, 1829, Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

Tripoli is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the centre of the municipality of Tripolis, pop...

, Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

 – May 14, 1879, Athens

Athens

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) was a Greek lawyer, newspaper reporter and politician from Mesolonghi. Deligiorgis studied law at the University of Athens and entered politics in 1854. He was not a proponent of the Megali Idea

Megali Idea

The Megali Idea was an irredentist concept of Greek nationalism that expressed the goal of establishing a Greek state that would encompass all ethnic Greek-inhabited areas, since large Greek populations after the restoration of Greek independence in 1830 still lived under Ottoman rule.The term...

 (Great Idea) and thought that a better solution to the Eastern Question would be to improve the condition of the Greeks living in Ottoman-controlled Macedonia

Macedonia (Greece)

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, Epirus

Epirus

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, Thrace

Thrace

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 and Asia Minor

Asia Minor

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 by liberalising the Ottoman Empire

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. Deligeorgis was the person who, on October 10, 1862, declared the end of the reign of King Otto

Otto of Greece

Otto, Prince of Bavaria, then Othon, King of Greece was made the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, whereby Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers .The second son of the philhellene King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Otto ascended...

 and the convening of a national assembly.