Simos Stogiannou Ioannidis () was a

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revolutionary 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 ...

known as well by the

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Armenskiotis.

Biography

Florina Greek Macedonian Simos Ioannidis

Ioannidis was born in the 1880s in Armenskon of

Florina Florina (, ''Flórina''; known also by some alternative names) is a town and municipality in the mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece. Its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. The town of Florina is the capital of the Florina regional uni ...

, then

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

(now Alona,

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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 ...

"Αφανείς, Γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι"
University Studio Press, 2008, p. 162 He started his armed actions by joining the armed group of

Kottas Kottas Christou () or Kote Hristov ( Bulgarian/Macedonian: Коте Христов), known simply as Kottas or Kote,, and often referred to as Konstantinos Christou (), was a Slavophone revolutionary chieftain in Western Macedonia during the M ...

as his adjutant and participating in the

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising (), consisting of the Ilinden Uprising (; ) and Preobrazhenie Uprising,Keith Brown (2013). Loyal Unto Death Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia. Indiana University Press. pp. 15-18. . was an organi ...

Apostolos Vakalopoulos Apostolos Evangelou Vacalopoulos (; 11 August 1909 – 10 July 2000) was a distinguished Greek historian, specializing in the Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Greece, and in modern Greek history. Vakalopoulos has been described as one of the greate ...

, "Εθνοτική Διαπάλη στη Μακεδονία (1894 – 1904)", Η Μακεδονία στις παραμονές του Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, publ. Ηρόδοτος,

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, 1999, p. 321-322 He later joined the group of

Pavlos Melas Pavlos Melas (; 29 March 1870 – 13 October 1904) was a Greek revolutionary and artillery officer of the Hellenic Army. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and was amongst the first Greek officers to join the Macedonian Struggle. ...

, assisting him and other chieftains like Efthymios Kaoudis and Georgios Tsontos who did not know the region well, acting in the region of

Pelister Baba (; or Baba Mountain, ), also known by the name of its highest peak, Pelister (), is a mountain in North Macedonia. The Pelister peak (2601 metres, or 8533 feet) overlooks the city of Bitola. Baba is the third highest mountain in North Macedo ...

. He set up his own armed group in 1906 cooperating with Pavlos Rakovitis, acting in the region of

. He participated as a volunteer in both

Balkan Wars The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkans, Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg), Greece, Kingdom of Serbia, Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro, M ...

, and notably in the battle which led to the extermination of

Vasil Chekalarov Vasil Hristov Chekalarov ( Bulgarian/) or Vasil Tcakalarov (1874 – 9 July 1913) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation in Macedonia. H. N. Brailsford described Chekala ...

. In 1957, the village of Motesnica in

was renamed to Simos Ioannidis in his honour.

References

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