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Arvanitaki
The Arvanitakis family (Greek: Αρβανιτάκης) or Arvanitachi is Cretan family also found in the Ionian Islands and elsewhere in Greece.
The family are particularly famous for the many generations of iconographer-priests which they produced. Other members of the family were soldiers, statesmen, merchants, doctors and lawyers.
Origin
The name 'Arvanitakis' (or 'Arvanitachi' in Venetian) is a nickname meaning 'little Arvanite', which dates from the days of Venetian service and was adopted in Crete in the 15th century.[1] The first member of the family to adopt the surname was Giannaris Drakos-Arvanitakis, a mercenary stradioti captain in the Republic of Venice.[2] He was granted land in Vleroma in Crete in return for his military service and entered the Venetian nobility known by his nickname 'Arvanitakis', which gradually became Italianizied as 'Arvanitachi'.[3][4]
The family fought for the Republic of Venice throughout a