Koumoundouros would not accept this and, helped by Theodoros Kolokotronis, resisted a Turkish force which attacked his tower at Kambos. Koumoundouros was taken prisoner and sent to Constantinople where he died but Kolokotronis, although wounded, managed to escape.
Antonbey was also deposed because the Turks thought he was helping the guerrilla efforts of his uncle, the former Zanetbey, and Pantelis Zervakos (1808-1810) was made Bey. He was pro-Turkish so the Maniats refused to accept him and drove him out of Mani. He was killed by the Turks in Constantinople for his failure and replaced by Theodoros Grigorakis of Mavrovouni (1810-1815). This appointment of yet another member of this family caused great discontent in western Mani and so power was then transferred to Petros Mavromichalis of Limeni (1815-1821). He made contact with the Philiki Etairia - the secret society that was plotting a revolution against the Turks throughout Greece - despite the fact that his sons were held hostage in Istanbul. Petrobey then negotiated with the Kapetani of the leading Mani families and in 1821 he secured a 'treva' or truce among the families and united them in the common cause of revolution.
On 17th March 1821, he led his forces out of Tsimova, which they renamed Areopolis,  City of "Ares" - the God of War,  and marched up the Mani to Kardamyli where he joined forces with Kolokotronis, Mourtzinos and the Messinian Maniats. They attacked the Turks at Kalamata on 23rd March, securing the first victory in the war which finally liberated Greece after hundreds of years of foreign occupation. 
The Maniat interpretation of Independence did not encompass the whole of Greece but rather Independence for themselves and their way of life. They did not take kindly to the idea of taxation and control by a central government of Greece - any more than they had accepted the same from the Ottomans - and consequently the family feuds and opposition to government interference continued for some time.
The first President of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, angered the Mavromichalis clan, especially when he denied the Maniat Kapetani the right to collect customs duties at their ports, and imposed a government tax on them. In 1830, a revolt was fermenting in Limeni and rumours were circulating of a Maniat attack on Nafplio, the capital of Greece at that time. Petrobey was a virtual

hostage at Nafplio and when he tried to leave, was captured and imprisoned. This action subdued the revolt and a delegation was sent to Mani to negotiate peace with the clan and persuade the eastern Maniats, who were preparing for a war with the clan, to remain where they were and not to attack. However, the Mavromichalis clan were still not satisfied, especially as Petrobey was still being held prisoner, and so Kapodistrias was assassinated at Nafplio in September 1831 by Georgios and Konstantinos Mavromichalis, the son and brother of Petros, who were subsequently executed for this crime. 
Greece remained highly unstable but was recognised as an independent kingdom in 1832, under the protection of France, Russia and Great Britain. They  gave Otto, the son of Louis I of Bavaria, the throne of Greece but, as he was only seventeen years old, regents were appointed until he came of age in 1835.
In 1833, the very soul of Maniat culture came under attack when it was decreed that the Mani towers would have to be pulled down. The situation was made worse by rumours that the Greek Orthodox Church was under threat from Bavarian Catholicism, and by the arrest of Kolokotronis on charges of treason. The first attempt to enforce this decree in 1834 resulted in a detachment of Bavarian troops being surrounded, forced to surrender, stripped naked and ransomed for a derisory price.

A second attempt by a larger Bavarian force resulted in heavy losses and a forced withdrawal. A third attempt with 6,000 regular troops again failed to enforce the order and a negotiated settlement resulted in the order being rescinded and the towers were left intact. Many towers were built after this time but they tended to be wider and designed to live in as well as retaining their defensive character.
In 1839, the Earl of Carnarvon recorded the Maniat dissatisfaction with the new state. "Many even, in their disgust at the new civilization which had promised so much and done so little, which had destroyed political and feudal power, and which had given no compensation in the form of material prosperity for what it had