Klepht
[kleft] /klɛft/
noun
1.
a Greek or Albanian brigand, exalted in the war of Greek independence as a patriotic robber; guerrilla.
/klɛft/
noun
1.
any of the Greeks who fled to the mountains after the 15th-century Turkish conquest of Greece and whose descendants survived as brigands into the 19th century
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