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*1: : one who lives by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunder plunder] usually as a member of a band : bandit  

*1: : one who lives by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunder plunder] usually as a member of a band : bandit  

==Description==

==Description==

'''Brigandage''' refers to the life and [[practice]] of brigands: highway robbery and plunder, and a brigand a [[person]] who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. Brigandage may be, and not infrequently has been, the last [[resource]] of a people subject to [[invasion]]. The Calabrians who fought for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_the_Two_Sicilies Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies], and the Spanish irregular levies, which maintained the national resistance against the French from 1808 to 1814, were called brigands by their enemies.[3]

Brigandage refers to the life and [[practice]] of '''brigands''': highway robbery and plunder, and a brigand a [[person]] who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. Brigandage may be, and not infrequently has been, the last [[resource]] of a people subject to [[invasion]]. The Calabrians who fought for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_the_Two_Sicilies Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies], and the Spanish irregular levies, which maintained the national resistance against the French from 1808 to 1814, were called brigands by their enemies.[3]

In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans Balkan peninsula], under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Ottoman rule], the brigands (called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klepht klephts] by the Greeks and hayduks or haydutzi by the Slavs) had some claim to believe themselves the representatives of their people against oppressors. The only approach to an attempt to maintain order was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_arms permission given to part of the population to carry arms] in order to repress the klephts. They were hence called armatoli. As a matter of fact the armatole were rather the allies than the enemies of the klephts.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigand]

In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans Balkan peninsula], under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Ottoman rule], the brigands (called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klepht klephts] by the Greeks and hayduks or haydutzi by the Slavs) had some claim to believe themselves the representatives of their people against oppressors. The only approach to an attempt to maintain order was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_arms permission given to part of the population to carry arms] in order to repress the klephts. They were hence called armatoli. As a matter of fact the armatole were rather the allies than the enemies of the klephts.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigand]