Dimitrios Stagas ( Greek: Δημήτριος Στάγκας) or Stasinopoulos (1864–1951), known as well with his nickname Kapetan Mizas was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle.

Biography

Stagas was born in 1864 in

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of the Kastoria region. He set up his own armed group which acted throughout the Macedonian Struggle, defending his hometown, Kleisoura, from

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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 Ioannis Karavitis (Greek: ''Ιωάννης Καραβίτης'' 1883–1949) was a Greek leader in the Macedonian Struggle from Crete. Biography Karavitis was born in the autumn of 1883 in Anopolis in the area of Sfakia in Crete. In 1903, while ...

. He was a member of the Struggle Commission of Kleisoura and the leader of the militia of Lechovo. He also participated in various operations in the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

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

1864 births 1951 deaths Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Greek Macedonians Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek) Greek military personnel of the Balkan Wars {{Greece-bio-stub People from Kastoria (regional unit)