Excerpt from the book:
"Michael Anagnostopoulos, was born November 7, 1837 at Papingo, a small village in the mountain-land of Epirus. His father was a hard-working peasant, and his village was one of those where the soldiers and tax-gatherers of the Turkish sultan were never seen. It governed itself by its own village officials, and sent its tribute for the sultan by their hands to the publicans of Constantinople. A school, such as it was, existed in the village, and there Michael began his education."
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