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Peter Mackridge: Language and National Identity in Greece, 1766-1976. Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN019959905X, p. 57. Rigas came from an area in Thessaly inhabited by mixed Greek- and Aromanian-speaking populations...While it has been claimed...that Rigas was of Aromanian origin...there is no sure evidence to support it and many...scholars today reject it
Vangelis Calotychos: Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics. Berg, 2003, ISBN1859737161p. 44. The author of the best documented work on Rhigas, Leandros Vranoussis, assumes that he was from a Greek family of longtime residents of Velestino
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Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (2011). "From Republican Patriotism to National Sentiment: A Reading of Hellenic Nomarchy". European Journal of Political Theory; University of Piraeus. 5 (1): 50–60. doi:10.1177/1474885106059064. ISSN1474-8851. S2CID55444918.
Kitromilides, Paschalis M. (2011). "From Republican Patriotism to National Sentiment: A Reading of Hellenic Nomarchy". European Journal of Political Theory; University of Piraeus. 5 (1): 50–60. doi:10.1177/1474885106059064. ISSN1474-8851. S2CID55444918.