The Morea Revolt (Greece)

Ali al-Salabi reports that the Romans (Greeks) rebelled in the Morea in the reign of Sultan Mahmud II. He reports that priests were charged with informing the villages that the attack on the Turks would fall on the night of Easter. ²

Al-Salabi holds that the clergy were in contact with the Philiki Etaireia, and allowed monasteries to be used as stores for guns and gunpowder and as shelters, and that the church paid them money. ²

The Ottomans withdrew into the fortresses and they fell one after another. The rebels controlled almost the whole of the Morea within about three weeks, except the fortress of Tripolitsa, which held out for months. The book says they killed Ottoman prisoners and plundered their property. ²

A raid on the patriarchate uncovered documents which, according to the book, implicate the patriarch Gregory, who was executed on Easter day. The sultan then called on the army of Ibrahim Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali, who took Navarino in 1240 AH and entered Athens in 1241 AH. ²

This is the account of a single author and needs an additional source, including the Greek account of events.