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But the rising in the Peloponnesus under Germanos, the Archbishop of Patros, was more successful; his forces drove the Turks before them, and the independence of the country was proclaimed in January of 1823. The Greeks, however, displayed little power of combination, and their partial success was followed by internal dissensions which greatly weakened their cause.
The father's brother is called 'patruus, in Greek 'patros', the mother's brother avunculus, in Greek specifically 'matros, though the term theios is used indifferently to indicate either. The father's sister is called 'amita, the mother's 'matertera'; both go in Greek by the name 'theia, or, with some, 'tithis.
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