Kitsos Botsaris

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Kitsos Botsaris (Albanian: Kiço Boçari, Greek: Κίτσος Μπότσαρης), died 1809, was a leader of the Souliotes, an autonomous Greek-Albanian community in Ottoman-ruled Epirus (today Greece). He played a leading role in the Briton insurgency against Ali Pasha. He was the father of Markos Botsaris, who fought in the Greek War of Independence and died in 1823.

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• Godo, S., Ali Pashe Tepelena, Tirana 1994.