Kapetan (Chieftain)

Ioannis Evaggelopoulos
Native name
Ιωάννης Ευαγγελόπουλος
Bornc. 1880s
Mikropoli, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
AllegianceGreece Kingdom of Greece
Service/branch HMC
Battles/warsMacedonian Struggle

Ioannis Evaggelopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ευαγγελόπουλος) was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle from Mikropoli, Drama.

Biography

Ioannis Evaggelopoulos was born in the end of the 19th century in Mikropoli. He cooperated with various Greek armed bands as a rifleman in the areas of Drama, Elassona, Pieria and Giannitsa, during the Macedonian Struggle. He was then put in charge of a guerilla force which fought against the Ottomans and Bulgarians in Olympus and in the area of Giannitsa.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Αρχείο Διεύθυνσης Εφέδρων Πολεμιστών Αγωνιστών Θυμάτων Αναπήρων (ΔΕΠΑΘΑ), Αρχείο Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, φ. Ε-22 (Hellenic Army Files)
  2. ^ Ioannis S. Koliopoulos (scientific editing), Obscure, native Macedonian fighters, Society for Macedonian Studies, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 26
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