Christian Captains Commanding Bands Of Klephts Or Brigands Armatoles, who, after the establishment of the Ottoman empire in Europe, succeeded in maintaining themselves independent in the possession of inaccessible mountain defiles. These warlike chiefs, constantly striving for the independence of Greece, became more and more formidable, especially in Epirus and other parts of northern Greece; and about the beginning of the 17th century the pashas were obliged to treat with them, and admit their right to govern their mountain country. They took a leading part in the Greek revolution; and among the armatolic chieftains most distinguished in this war were Eustrates, Gogo, Makry, Saphacas and Karaiskakis (both of whom perished under the walls of Athens in 1827), Kaltzodemos (killed before Missolonghi), Odysseus, Panuryas, and Marco Bozzaris, the commander of the Suliotes.