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Receipt of the National Treasury for an amount due to Anagnostis Kopanitsas (27 October 1826)
Archive of the Kopanistas Family Recognition code: GR HP_LHP A.4.1.12 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE DOCUMENT refers to a future com- pensation to Anagnostis Kopanitsas with eight thousand grossi, because he had not received the revenue from the regions of Parori and Vordonia due
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to the prevailing upheaval. The receipt bears the number 563 and the stamp of the National Treasury as well as the signatures of the three-member com- mittee and the general secretary.
List of contributions to the fundraiser that was conducted in the Peloponnese, in June 1823
(Tripolis, 17 June 1823)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 10, no 254 [pp. 165-166] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE LOCAL FUNDRAISERS within the country were a common means of economic sup- port for the Struggle. Well-known is the narrative of Psorokostaina (poor homeland), which is based on a historically existing person, Panoraia Hatjikosta or Hatjikostaina, member of a noble family in Aivali, who took refuge in Nafplio after the destruction of
her birthplace by the Turks. Panoraia offered her few belongings to the fundraiser in the central square of the city in support of the besieged of Missolonghi, in 1826, setting first the good example. Her case was used metonymically for the Greek state, which is diachronically based on the decency and voluntary contribution of its citizens.
