 Complete the following phrase:  Vendettas could go on for months, sometimes years, and usually ended when one family was exterminated or left the town. In some cases like the tit for tat killing of a murderer vendettas would be concluded after the guilty individuals were killed. In other cases vendettas, particularly long-running ones, were ended in a peaceful to terms or exchange of property. In the case of long vendettas, families often agreed upon a temporary , truce in order to allow for crop harvests or the attendance of religious ceremonies; when the ended, the killing could resume. A cornerstone of the Maniots vendetta culture was the agreement that all vendettas immediately stop in a universal whenever the community faced a Turkish threat. The longest of all was announced by the Mavromichalis clan when war was declared on the Ottoman Empire in March 1821, beginning the 