Theodoros Adam (

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 ...

: Θεόδωρος Αδάμ) was a

chieftain 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 ...

Biography

Adam was born in the late 19th century in

Nižepole Nižepole ( mk, Нижеполе, rup, Nijopolea, ) is a village in the municipality of Bitola, North Macedonia and is an alpine settlement 7.85 kilometers from Bitola. History The population of Nižepole was made up of older inhabitants of A ...

, then part of the

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 in

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

). He organized the National Committee of his hometown, Nižepole very early (before 1903) and set up an armed group headed by himself. Its purpose was to face

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

armed action in the areas of

Pelagonia Pelagonia ( mk, Пелагонија, Pelagonija; el, Πελαγονíα, Pelagonía) is a geographical region of Macedonia named after the ancient kingdom. Ancient Pelagonia roughly corresponded to the present-day municipalities of Bitola, Pri ...

and

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 ...

until 1904, when officers arrived from free

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 ...

. Later, his group cooperated in many operations with the

Cretan Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

officer

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 ...

until 1907. In 1908, his group, consisting mainly of Nižepole locals, under the general instructions of the Cretan Panagiotis Gerogiannis, dealt with multiple

armed groups. His actions continued until 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 ...

in 1912 and after the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Ottoman Constit ...

, as Bulgarian armed groups continued to fight in the Pelagonia area.

Sources

* John S. Koliopulos (editor), Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 175 * Georgios Pitsivas (editor), ''Ιωάννη Καραβίτη, Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών'', Athens 1994, volume II, p. 721 * Konstantinos A. Vakalopoulos, ''Εθνοτική Διαπάλη στη Μακεδονία (1894 – 1904), Η Μακεδονία στις παραμονές του Μακεδονικού Αγώνα'', Irodotos, Thessaloniki, 1999, p. 344 * Το δοξασμένο Μοναστήρι: ήτοι, ιστορία της πατριωτικής δράσεως της πόλεως Μοναστηρίου και των περιχώρων από του έτους 1830 μέχρι του 1903, Παντελή Γ. Τσάλλη, ''Κεντρική Επιτροπή διά την διάδοσιν της Ιστορίας του Μοναστηρίου'', Thessaloniki 1932, p. 85 {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Theodoros Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Greek Macedonians People from Bitola Municipality Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek) Greek people from the Ottoman Empire