Ioannis Evaggelopoulos
Kapetan (Chieftain) Ioannis Evaggelopoulos | |
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Native name | Ιωάννης Ευαγγελόπουλος |
Born | c. 1880s Mikropoli, Adrianople Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
Allegiance | Kingdom of Greece |
Service | HMC |
Battles / wars | Macedonian Struggle |
Ioannis Evaggelopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ευαγγελόπουλος) was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle from Mikropoli, Drama.
Biography
[edit]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]