Laskarina Bouboulina | The mother of modern Greece | BBC

BBC programme The Forum focuses on the naval commander Laskarina Bouboulina and the significance her role in the 1821 uprising for Greek independence still has today.

Guest speakers in the full podcast include Dr Margarite Poulos, Dr April Kalogeropoulos Householder, and Pavlos Demertzis-Bouboulis, a descendant of Bouboulina herself.

Hosted by Bridget Kendall.

[aggelokaragianni]

No she is my grandfather Byron karagianni’s mothers grandmother..his mother was Lela karagianni from Ww2 Hero

[tsifty]

Show me what other nation had a women leading soldiers. In its own way Greece was and is the nations showing what equality is al about.

[yvonne]

"Mother took me in her arms and we left. We didn't go far. On a whim of her own, she decided on the neighbouring island of Hydra, but also its rival, its irreconcilable opponent, Spetsai. It stood for the idea that our enemies could treat us no worse than our friends. At least in Spetsai we spoke Arvanitika, i.e. Albanian, our language. My mother, my father, I were, in fact, Greek without being so. Greeks in heart, in spirit, in faith, in ideals, of course, Greeks in sacrifice since we gave our lives for Greece, but not Greeks by blood. I am actually Arvanite, Albanian. Our race, from the earliest times it has existed, has had different names. Are we Pelasgians, Illyrians? Is our language directly derived from Sanskrit as scholars say? I only know that we came to the Balkans thousands of years ago and spread to colonies throughout Greece. Hydra is Albanian, Spetsai is Albanian."

Title: La Bouboulina
Author: Michel, prince de Grèce
Publisher: Ed. de la Seine, Paris, 2002

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In the first place she was an Albanien.