klepht

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klepht [klɛft]

(Historical Terms) any of the Greeks who fled to the mountains after the 15th-century Turkish conquest of Greece and whose descendants survived as brigands into the 19th century

[from Modern Greek klephtēs, from Greek kleptēs thief]

klephtic adj

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