Georgios Seridis ( el, Γεώργιος Σερίδης), elsewhere known under the

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Kapetan Spanos, was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle.

Biography

Seridis was born in the 1850s or 60s in Flampouro, Florina. He was a wood merchant, working in

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and West Macedonia. He started his armed actions early, even before the arrival of the officers from the Greek state, against the

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komitadjis of Giannitsa and Goumenissa. In 1904 he met with

Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Μαζαράκης-Αινιάν, 1869–1949) was a Hellenic Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. Life Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian was born in the island of Kyth ...

, who helped him form an eighty-member body of Greek Macedonians. Mazarakis entrusted him with the leadership of the body (despite his advanced age), as he was experienced in wars and respected by the soldiers. At the beginning of 1905, his body acted in the regions of

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and Monastiri (now

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), and in the February of that year he succeeded in beating a komitadji group near

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. However, his main area of action remained Goumenissa and

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, where he restricted the activity of the Bulgarian armed groups, including Apostol Petkov's. His presence and successful operations resulted in raising the morale of the

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in the region. Captain Spanos and his group were arrested by an Ottoman army detachment near Goumenissa, resulting in the end of his actions.

Sources

* "Αφανείς, Γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι", editor:

John S. Koliopoulos John S. Koliopoulos ( el, Ιωάννης Σ. Κολιόπουλος) (Ioannis Koliopoulos in modern transliteration) was a Greek historian, born in the village of Votani, Kastoria in 1942. He was the author of ''Plundered loyalties: Axis occupat ...

, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Athens 2008 * Αρχείο Διεύθυνσης Εφέδρων Πολεμιστών, Αγωνιστών, Θυμάτων, Αναπήρων, Αρχείο Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, φ. Σ-23 * Γ. Πετσίβα (diligence),

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 ...

, "Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών", Athens 1994, volume Α΄, p. 91 {{DEFAULTSORT:Seridis, Georgios Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Greek Macedonians Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek) People from Perasma Greek people from the Ottoman Empire