Lazaros Varzis () was a

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chieftain of the

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Biography

He was born in the mid 19th century in Kontziko (now Galatini) of

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. He participated in the

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and in the 1896–1897 Greek Macedonian rebellion, initially as a soldier and later as a co-leader of a small armed group, in the group of Athanasios Broufas. During the

, he was a chieftain and acted mainly in the area of

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, from June 1906 to March 1908 against the Bulgarian

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s and the Ottoman authorities, often collaborating with the officer Athanasios Exadaktylos. He came in contact with Traianos Bragiannis to facilitate his passage to

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John S. Koliopoulos Ioannis or John S. Koliopoulos (, 1942–2022)was a Greek historian, born in the village of Votani, Kastoria Kastoria (, ''Kastoriá'' ) is a city in northern Greece in the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Macedonia. It is the capit ...

(editor), ''Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι'', Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 103 * Αρχείο Διεύθυνσης Εφέδρων Πολεμιστών Αγωνιστών Θυμάτων Αναπήρων (ΔΕΠΑΘΑ), Αρχείο Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, φ. Β-164 {{DEFAULTSORT:Varzis, Lazaros Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Greek Macedonians Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek) People from Askio, Kozani Greeks from the Ottoman Empire