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 | | The letter and its appeal, apparently, was never sent and, on the evidence of Russian indifference to the vainglorious Greek revolts in the Danubian basin under Ypsilantis, would, anyway, have fallen on deaf ears. |
 | | The general uprising of the Peloponnesian Greeks meant within a few months over 20,000 Muslims (mostly ethnic Greeks who had converted) were systematically obliterated from the Peloponnese, their villages and mosques raised to the ground, their wells poisoned and blocked and, by and large, they themselves massacred in their thousands. |
 | | These included the paying of taxes and, from the Maniate point of view, the equally outrageous notion that the tower houses should be pulled down. |
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