Vassilis Rapotikas
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Vassilis Christou Rapotikas Vasil Rapotika | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1888 |
| Died | May or June 1943 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Principality of Pindus Kingdom of Italy |
| Service | Roman Legion |
| Years of service | 1941–1943 |
Vassilis Christou Rapotikas (1888–1943; Aromanian: Vasil Rapotika; Greek: Βασίλειος Χρήστου Ραποτίκας) was an Aromanian brigand[1] and collaborationist paramilitary leader in Greece during World War II. He was among leaders of the Roman Legion of the short-lived Italian puppet state of Pindus, right behind Alcibiades Diamandi and Nicolaos Matussis. This unit sought to carve out a permanent and independent Aromanian state in the Greek regions of Thessaly and Macedonia.[2] Rapotikas was killed in May or June 1943 by members of the Greek People's Liberation Army near Grizano.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ Koliopoulos, John S. (1999). Plundered Loyalties. Axis Occupation and Civil Strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941-1949. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-85065-381-3.
- ^ British Reports on Greece 1943–1944, John Melior Stevens, Christopher Montague Woodhouse, David John Wallace, Lars Bærentzen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1982, pp. 36–37
- ^ Σταύρος Παπαγιάννης (Stavros Papayiannis), ISBN 978-960-7210-71-5, 1999, 2004, p. 183