User:Michael IX the White

The twenty-one (male) leaders I admire the most

 * 1) Agamemnon Danaus of Mycenae, for having total control over those numberless kingdoms
 * 2) Achilles Aeacid of Epirus, for inspiring fear to gods and mortals alike
 * 3) Pericles of Athens, for being democratically elected 15 times, and the rest he's done
 * 4) Alexander Argead-Aeacid of Epirus,Macedonia, Asia and Egypt for being the greatest strategical and tactical genius the world has ever seen
 * 5) Pyrrhus Aeacid of Epirus, for being one of the two men to defeat but not conquer the early Roman Republic
 * 6) Gaius Julius Caesar for overthrowing the Republic, as others did as well...!
 * 7) Emperor Constantine I the Great, for moving our capital to Byzantium, for his insight, and political genius... Who would not admire him?
 * 8) Emperor Justinian I, for listening to his wife,  for the foundation of Ioannina and his great expansion of the (Eastern) Empire
 * 9) Emperor Basil II, for...
 * 10) Emperor Constantine XI for being the last but still not surrendering to the numberless hordes of enemies
 * 11) Theodoros Kolokotronis for organising the Greeks...
 * 12) Ali Pasha of Tepeleni, for using Greeks, Turks and Albanians alike to set his own state inside the Ottoman Empire, (and for supporting us Zagorisians!)
 * 13) Emperor Napoleon of France, for being able to overthrow the Republic and then (later) arise again within 100 days...
 * 14) Otto von Bismarck, for the colossal world power that is Germany
 * 15) Eleutherios Venizelos, for having a vision for Greece
 * 16) Constantine I Sonderburg-Glucksburg-Schleswig-Holstein, for liberating half of Greece
 * 17) General Charalambos Katsimitros (VIII Division), for defeating the Axis in Epirus
 * 18) General Ioannis Metaxas for saying "No", no matter what his regime was...
 * 19) Colonel Konstantinos Davakis, for winning and falling in Pindus during WWII
 * 20) the Ethnarch Constantine Karamanlis, for returning... "Boys, pray for me", "Greece is an endless psychiatric clinic"
 * 21) Kostas Karamanlis, for withstanding the constant attack from the entire press in Greece, which is left-wing controlled, and other groups that try to control the country itself


 * (to be completed and expanded)