Simos Stogiannou Ioannidis ( el, Σίμος Στογιάννου Ιωαννίδης) was a Slavophone

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

revolutionary of the

Macedonian Struggle The Macedonian Struggle ( bg, Македонска борба; el, Μακεδονικός Αγώνας; mk, Борба за Македонија; sr, Борба за Македонију; tr, Makedonya Mücadelesi) was a series of social, po ...

known as well by the

nom de guerre A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...

Armenskiotis.

Biography

Florina Greek Macedonian Simos Ioannidis

Ioannidis was born in the 1880s in Armenskon of

Florina Florina ( el, Φλώρινα, ''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 F ...

, then

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

(now Alona,

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

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 ...

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

Kottas Kottas Christou ( el, Κώττας Χρήστου) or Kote Hristov (Bulgarian/ Macedonian: Коте Христов), known simply as Kottas or Kote,, and often referred to as Konstantinos Christou ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Χρήστου), ...

as his adjutant and participating in the

Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August–October 1903 ( bg, Илинденско-Преображенско въстание, Ilindensko-Preobrazhensko vastanie; mk, Илинденско востание, ...

. He later joined the group of

Pavlos Melas Pavlos Melas ( el, Παύλος Μελάς, ''Pávlos Melás''; March 29, 1870 – October 13, 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 ...

, assisting him and other chieftains like Efthymios Kaoudis and

Georgios Tsontos Georgios Tsontos ( el, Γεώργιος Τσόντος) (1871-1942) also known with the ''nom de guerre'' Kapetan Vardas (Καπετάν Βάρδας), was a Greek guerrilla fighter, general, and later politician from Crete. Early life Georgios T ...

who did not know the region well, acting in the region of

Pelister Baba ( mk, Баба; or Baba Mountain, mk, Баба Планина, Baba Planina), or also known by the name of its highest peak, Pelister ( mk, Пелистер), is a mountain in North Macedonia. The Pelister peak (2601 metres, or 8533 feet) ov ...

. 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 refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...

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

Vasil Chekalarov Vasil Hristov Chekalarov (Bulgarian/ mk, Васил Христов Чекаларов) or Vasil Tcakalarov (22 February 1874 – 9 July 1913) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation in ...

. In 1957, the village of Motesnica in

was renamed to Simos Ioannidis in his honour.17.1.1957-ΦΕΚ 11/1957

References

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