Nikolaos Zervas was a Greek

Greeks

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 revolutionary and Army

Hellenic Army

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 general.

Zervas was born in Souli

Souli

Souli is a municipality in Epirus, northwestern Greece. It was originally settled by both Greek and Albanian refugees who were hunted by the Ottomans in Thesprotia, Greece and Laberia, Albania. In early modern times, it was inhabited by about 12,000 Souliotes. After their expulsion the population...

, Epirus

Epirus

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, then Ottoman Empire

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, and became one of the leaders of the Souliotes

Souliotes

Souliotes were a warlike community from the area of Souli, in Greece, who became famous across Greece for their resistance against the local Ottoman Pashalik of Yanina ruled by the Muslim Albanian Ali Pasha...

. Zervas participated in the Greek War of Independence

Greek War of Independence

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 (1821–1830) and distinguished at the Battle of Analatos (April 1827). At March 1828, together with another revolutionary leader, Dimos Tselios, managed to push back an advancing Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 (Turkish-Albanian) force at Menidi

Menidi

Menidi may refer to the following places in Greece:*Menidi, Aetolia-Acarnania*Menidi, an alternative name for Acharnes, Attica...

, Attica

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.

After Independende Zervas participated in an anti-royalist revolt in Acarnania

Acarnania

Acarnania is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Today it forms the western part of the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania. The capital...

 (1836). At 1854, already a Major General in the Hellenic Army, he resigned his post and joined general Theodoros Grivas in the Epirus revolt of 1854

Epirus Revolt of 1854

The 1854 revolt in Epirus was one of the most important of a series of Greek uprisings that occurred in the Ottoman-occupied Greek world during that period. When the Crimean War broke out, many Epirote Greeks, with tacit support from the Greek state, revolted against the Ottoman rule...

. The revolt aimed at the union of Epirus with the Kingdom of Greece

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, but failed.