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244:. After operations lasting a year, it was finally taken in spring 1571. However, the rebels met difficulties during the siege of nearby Nivice which lasted nearly one year due to lack of the necessary preparations and artillery support. The capture of Nivica fort was achieved due to the military activities of the Himariotes and Mormoris. Meanwhile an Ottoman fleet under admiral Uluz Ali approached the coast of Himara. During the military operations Mormoris was assisted by his brother Zorzis Mormoris, who commanded units of
106:. Various members of the family participated in the armed struggles against the Ottoman Empire. The named is mentioned in the sixteenth century either as Mormori or as Murmuri and it appears that the family was active at Nauplion, where it originate. The following period various members of the Greek-Cretan branch of the family served the Venetian Republic. In various contemporary reports Mormoris himself frequently praises the Greeks as well as various members of his family in their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.
671:κατά την πολιορκία του κάστρου της Νίβιτσας. Η επιχείρηση άρχισε το καλοκαίρι του 1571, αλλά η ατελής προετοιμασία της και η έλλειψη πυροβολικού καθυστέρησαν τους Χιμαριώτες πάνω από ένα χρόνο. Τελικά, με τη βοήθεια των ανδρών του Μόρμορη η Νίβιτσα κυριεύτηκε την άνοιξη του 1571, οι υπερασπιστές της σφάχτηκαν ή αιχμαλωτίστηκαν και ο Τούρκος διοικητής της, ένας από τους πιο σημαντικούς στρατιωτικούς αρχηγούς της περιοχής, έπεσε στα χέρια των επαναστατών.
704:Στόχος τους ήταν το φρούριο του Σοποτού, που το κατέλαβαν στις 10 Ιουνίου 1570 μετά την πτώση του η εξέγερση γενικεύθηκε με την καθοδήγηση του Ναυπλιώτη Μανώλη Μορμόρη. Η απελευθεύρωση του Σοποτού υπήρξε αφετηρία άλλων επιχειρήσεων στην Ήπειρο και, συγκεκριμένα στις περιοχές του Αργυροκάστρου και της Πάργας, στις οποίες σημαντικός ήταν ο ρόλος των Ελλήνων και, κυρίως, των "στρατιωτών" Πέτρου Λάντζα, Γεωργίου Ρενέση και άλλων.
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and the surrounding region. The capture of this strategic location triggered a general revolt under his leadership. Following this event the
Ottoman presence was limited in the region to a few military outposts. As such Mormoris together with groups of Himariotes attempted to advance to neutralize them as soon as possible. Soon after the anti-Ottoman movement was spread to the adjacent regions of Argyrokastron (modern
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Sopot was the most important stronghold in the region. Based on contemporary accounts, the Greek groups that participated in the operations composed of units of Greek
Stratioti from Corfu as well as Himariotes. After a successful siege on June 7, 1570, Mormoris was appointed commander of the fortress
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Vakalopoulos, 2003, p. 80-81: Η επιχείρηση της Νίβιτσας στέφθηκε με επιτυχία χάρη στις πολεμικές ενέργειες των Χιμαριωτών και του Εμμ . Μόρμορη και είχε σαν αποτέλεσμα να περιέλθει ολόκληρη η περιοχή του Δέλβινου και του Αργυροκάστρου στη Βενετική εξουσία, ενώ προσέγγιζε και πάλι ισχυρός στόλος στα
504:
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Venetian administration, during the sixteenth century, on the Greek mainland's coastal areas, especially in the Peloponnesos, increased the strategic importance of the island, transformed it into a staging area for military operations, and made it also a
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Chasiotis, 1970, p. 213: Με την κατάληψη του Σοποτού η τουρκική κυριαρχία περιορίστηκε σε μερικά μόνο στρατιωτικά κέντρα της περιοχής. Αυτά προσπάθησε να τα εξουδετερώση έγκαιρα ο Εμμανουήλ Μορμόρης με τους Χιμαριώτες επαναστάτες στις αρχές του 1570. Μεγάλες δυσκολίες αντιμετώπισαν οι επαναστάτες
655:
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Sagredo Και η πηγή αυτή και άλλες ανάλογες σύγχρονες μαρτυρίες
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Chasiotis, 1970, p. 147: "Ο Venier έφερε στους Έλληνες της Χιμάρας όπλα και άλλα πολεμοφόδια και παραχώρησε άδειες ελεύθερης ναυσιπλοϊας (salvocondotti) στις βενετικές θάλασσες. Οι άδειες αυτές ήταν αναγκαίες για τους Χιμαριώτες ναυτικούς πολλοί από αυτούς είχαν αποκλειστή από όλα τα λιμάνια της
424:, p. 217: The Ottoman garrison fled, and Venier installed there a small Venetian force under a Greek or possibly Albanian officer, Emanuele Mormori, who had used his local knowledge to help plan and execute the attack.
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Georgios Renesis. In addition, the inhabitants of nearby Himara also supported the uprising and submitted voluntarily to Venetian rule, while making use of the advantageous mountainous terrain of their homeland.
738:, p. 136: But shortly after that, Emanuele Mormori, the commander of the recently conquered fortress of Sopot, took his soldiers and 'a large number of Albanians' to attack the small Ottoman fortress of Nivica
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Drawings of the Sopot fortress in 1570 during capture by
Venetian ships. Manoli Mormori (Emmanuel Mormoris) described in the legend "with 1000 Albanians having captured one of the surrounding hills in favor of
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The Greek, Manuel
Mormori of Nauplia, who had proposed the undertaking, was left in charge. This success induced certain of the population in the neighbourhood of Cheimarra to submit themselves voluntarily to
834:Οι Ελληνες στις παραμονες της ναυμαχιας της Ναυπακτου: Eκκλησεις, Eπαναστατικες Kινησεις και Eξεγερσεις στην Ελληνικη Xερσονησο απο τις παραμονες ως το τελος του Κυπριακου πολεμου (1568-1571)
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295:. The latter was executed in March 1591. The following year he returned to Crete to deal with various rebellions in the island. In the summer of 1593 he was placed in
845:Ο βίος και η πολιτεία της προσφυγικής οικογένειας Μούρμουρη (Mormori) στα Χανιά του 16ου αιώνα. Προσωπογραφία, οικογενειακές στρατηγικές, κοινωνικές συμπεριφορές
307:. Mormoris was the author of several military reports on the subject of the construction of a wide network of fortifications in the Ionian islands and Crete.
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place in which thousands of Greeks, from all social backgrounds, fleeing the advancing
Turkisch armies, sought refuge... One such family were the Mormoris."
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Mormoris with a force composed of his soldiers and a 'large number of Albanians' proceeded to siege of the coastal fortress of
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98:. As such after the Ottoman conquest of Nauplion (1540) a branch of the Mormoris family escaped to the
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