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overwhelming majority of sources use the greek name, and lang-el comes before lang-sq anyway
So are you also going to change Catherine of Russia's, Napoleon's , Nimitz's, etc,etc articles according to this one?
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'''Markos Botsaris''' ({{lang-el|Μάρκος Μπότσαρης}}, {{lang-sq|Marko Boçari}}; c. 1788 - 21 August 1823) was a leader of the [[Souliotes]] who played an important role in the [[Greek War of Independence|War of Greek Independence]].<ref>Markriyannis, Ioannis. ''The Memoirs of General Makriyannis, 1797-1864''. Oxford University Press, 1966.</ref>
 
Born in the region of [[Souli]] in [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]], he was the second son of captain [[Kitsos Botsaris]] who was murdered in [[Arta]] in 1809 by order of [[Ali Pasha]]. They came from the village of Dragani (today Ambelia), near [[Paramythia]]. In 1803, after the capture of Souli by Ali Pasha, Botsaris with the remnants of the [[Souliotes]], crossed over to the [[Ionian Islands]], where he ultimately took service in a [[France|French]] regiment.
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