Dimitrios Stagas (

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: Δημήτριος Στάγκας) or Stasinopoulos ( 1864–1951), known as well with his nickname Kapetan Mizas was a

chieftain of the

Macedonian Struggle The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. From 1904 to 1908 the conflict was p ...

Biography

Stagas was born in about 1864 in Kleisoura of the

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region. He set up his own armed group which acted throughout the

, defending his hometown, Kleisoura, from Bulgarian raids, but also the retaliation of the Ottoman authorities. He acted in the regions of Kastoria,

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, and

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. He cooperated in several operations with Ioannis Karavitis. He was a member of the Struggle Commission of Kleisoura and the leader of the militia of

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. He also participated in various operations in the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia, Kingdom of Greece, Greece and Kingdom of Montenegro, Montenegro) agai ...

as a volunteer.Κωνσταντίνος Αποστόλου Βακαλόπουλος, Ο Ελληνισμός της περιοχής Μοριχόβου Μοναστηριού κατά τό Μακεδονικό αγώνα - Η περίπτωση του άγνωστου μακεδονομάχου Πέτρου Σουγαράκη He died in 1951 at the age of 86 or 87.

References

1860s births 1951 deaths People from Kastoria Greeks from the Ottoman Empire Greek Macedonians Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek) Greek military personnel of the Balkan Wars {{Greece-bio-stub