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Leonardos Leonardopoulos was a Greek fighter of the Greek Revolution. He descended from Zatouna.
Before the Greek Revolution he was a merchant, and a blood brother of Theodoros Kolokotronis. During the war he contributed with a substantial amount of munitions.
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