About Spiros Kagiales
Lived 1872 – 1929 (aged 56–57). Spiros Kagiales was a Turkish and Greek military personnel and revolutionary.
Spiros Kagiales or Kagialedakis (; 1872–1929) was a Greek revolutionary from Crete and a soldier of the Hellenic Army who participated in the Cretan Revolts of 1895–1898 and the Balkan Wars.
Biography He was born in 1872 in Crete, then part of the Ottoman Empire, into the well-known Kagiales family. His mother Maria Ornerakis, was from Sfakia while his father, Dimitrios's family came from Gramvousa. The men of the family took part in the various struggles of their time for the freedom of Crete and its union with Greece.
The municipality of Akrotiri annually celebrates the anniversary of the bombardment of 9 February 1897 and lays wreaths at his statue.
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Who was Spiros Kagiales?
Cretan soldier
When was Spiros Kagiales born?
Spiros Kagiales was born in 1872.
When did Spiros Kagiales die?
Spiros Kagiales died in 1929 in Chalepa.
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Spiros Kagiales was a military personnel and revolutionary.
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Spiros Kagiales was Turkish and Greek.
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