Andreas Kopasis

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Prince of Samos

Andreas Kopasis


Prince of Samos
In office January 1908 – 22 March 1912
Preceded by	Georgios Georgiadis
Succeeded by	Grigorios Vegleris
Personal details
Born	1856 Sfakia
Died	22 March 1912 Samos

Andreas Kopasis was the Ottoman-appointed Prince of Samos from 1908 to 1912. His tenure was widely regarded as pro-Turkish and tyrannical. His bringing in of additional Ottoman troops in 1908 caused a revolt to break out among the Samians, which was quelled brutally by further Ottoman reinforcements. The leaders of the pro-Greek opposition, including Themistoklis Sophoulis, fled the island for Greece. Kopasis was assassinated by a pro-Sophoulis agent on 22 March 1912.

v t e Princes of Samos
Stefan Bogoridi (1833–50) Alexandros Kallimachis (1850–54) Ion Ghica (1854–59) Miltiadis Aristarchis (1859–66) Pavlos Mousouros (1866–73) Georgios Georgiadis (acting, 1873) Konstantinos Adosidis (1873–74) Konstantinos Photiadis (1874–79) Konstantinos Adosidis (1879–85) Alexandros Karatheodoris (1885–95) George Berovich (1895–96) Stephanos Mousouros (1896–99) Konstantinos Vagianis (1899–1900) Michail Grigoriadis (1900–02) Alexandros Mavrogenis (1902–04) Ioannis Vithynos (1904–06) Konstantinos Karatheodoris (1906–07) Georgios Georgiadis (1907–08) Andreas Kopasis (1908–12) Grigorios Vegleris (1912)