10 euro 200 YEARS FROM THE DEATH OF BOUBOULINAS 2025 GREECE

Laskarina Pinotsi (known as Bouboulina, after the surname of her second husband) was born in 1771 in Constantinople and raised in Spetses. From her two husbands, Dimitrios Giannouzas and Dimitrios Bouboulis, she inherited a huge fortune, which she spent entirely in support of the Struggle. She was one of the few women who were accepted as members of the Friendly Society. Immediately after her initiation, she began to buy weapons and ammunition, while she built a ship with 18 cannons, the Agamemnon , the flagship of her fleet. At the same time, she formed and maintained at her own expense a military corps of Spetses residents. Bouboulina participated with her fleet in the siege of Nafplio, where she later settled on land granted to her by the Greek government in recognition of her services. She also took part in the sieges of Monemvasia and Tripolitsa. However, after the civil war she fell into disfavor because she supported the release of Theodore Kolokotronis and was exiled to Spetses. There she was killed in 1825 in a family dispute.