Battle of Vromopigada

Battle of Vromopigada
Part of Ottoman invasion of Mani (1770)
A map of the Mani.
Date 1770 Location Vromopigada Result Maniot victory
Belligerents
Mani	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Exarchos Grigorakis Zanet Grigorakis	Hatzi Osman †
Strength
7,000(According to Greek sources)	16,000(According to Greek sources)
Casualties and losses
Unknown	10,000 (According to Greek sources)

The Battle of Vromopigada was fought between the Ottoman Turks and the Maniots of Mani in 1770. The location of the battle was in a plain between the two towns of Skoutari and Parasyros. The battle ended in a Greek victory.

Following the Venetian defeat to the Ottoman Empire in the Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18), the Peloponnese once again returned to Ottoman hands. However, the autonomous Mani, who had refused to accept Ottoman sovereignty in the first Ottoman occupation of the Peloponnese once again refused to accept Ottoman rule. The Maniots through an agent they had in Russia began conspiring with Catherine the Great and Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov. In 1770, terms were agreed and a Russian fleet sailed into the Aegean Sea and landing in Mani en route destroying an Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Chesma.

After initial success, the Orlov Revolt ended in failure. Arguments between Orlov, the Russian leader, and John the Canine, the Maniot leader led to the separation of the armies. John's army suffered a devastating defeat at Rizomilo in Messenia against the Ottoman army with only John surviving. Meanwhile, the Russian army having made no long term gains retreated. The Ottomans had, meanwhile, unleashed mercenaries of Muslim Albanians (also known as Turkoalbanians) on Greece. They pillaged their way through Attica before attacking the Peloponnese where they massacred Greek civilians in revenge for massacres and destruction of properties that Christian forces committed against Muslim civilians.

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