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Dimitrakis Deligiannis ( Lagadia, 1783 - Lagadia , 1848 ) was a fighter of the revolution of 1821 from Arcadia.

Biography
He was born in 1783 in Lagadia, Arcadia and was the son of the important prostitute Ioannis Deligiannis who was killed before the revolution by the Ottoman authorities with a sultan's firman. He was a member of the Filiki Eteria and with the beginning of the Greek Revolution, he actively participated along with the rest of his brothers. He proceeded to the general massacre of the Ottoman inhabitants of Lagadia who had been disarmed long ago by the forces of his brother Kanellos and participated in the campaign that led to the extraction of the powerful Ottoman stronghold of Lala. Then, he took part in the decisive for the blockade of Tripolitsa, battle of Grana and a few days later proceeded with 500 men to the occupation of the village of Mantzagra, near Tripolitsa. During the siege of the town he entered into it from the bastion of the Seragio. Then he headed towards Patras where he took part in the siege of the town. In 1822 he participated in the attempt to repulse the military campaign of Dramalis fighting at Agionori, including others. For his contribution, on January 22 of 1823 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant general. During the civil war, he stood against the government of Kountouriotis. Following the defeat of the side he supported, he surrendered along with his other brothers in the beginning of February 1825 in Nafplio and he was imprisoned in Hydra.

Later, he was released and took part in the operations against the egyptian army of Ibrahim Pasha. In 1825 he fought in charge of soldiers in the succesful for the Greek forces battle of Trabala and in July he staged several ambushes against the enemy troops in Dervenia of Leontariou. He fought in Piana and in the beginning of 1826 in a victorius battle near the villages of Zevgolatio and Agiannis.

With his wife, Stathoula, he had a son, Ioannis who had a carreer in politics and became a minister in 1874. He was promoted to the rank of commander in chief and after the liberation he settled in Lagadia where he died in 1848.