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The revolution breaks out on 22 February 1821, when Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prouthos river, as head of a small number of Greek soldiers, and enters
in the Danubian Principalities. At Jassy, on 24 February 1821, he gives the order of the uprising: «Fight for faith and homeland».
A month later, the revolutionary message begins also to spread in south Greece.
It had been preceded on 26-30 January 1821 by the secret assembly of Vostitsa (Aigio), in the presence of important prelates and notables of the wider region. In the last ten days of the month, the Peloponnese is in revolutionary upheaval. The siege of the fort of Patras by the revolted Greeks marks the first military Greek-Ottoman confrontation.
At the same time with the military operations, the first attempts at administrative and civic reorganization begin to appear in the Peloponnese.
On 23 March 1821 in Kalamata the Messinian Senate is formed with Petros Mavromichalis as its head. In May 1821, on the initiative of the Messinian Senate,
