Vassilis Rapotikas

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Vassilis Christou Rapotikas
Vasil Rapotika
Born1888
Gramos, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
DiedMay or June 1943
Grizano, Greece
Military career
AllegiancePrincipality of Pindus
 Kingdom of Italy
Service/branchRoman Legion
Years of service1941–1943

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ British Reports on Greece 1943–1944, John Melior Stevens, Christopher Montague Woodhouse, David John Wallace, Lars Bærentzen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1982, pp. 36–37
  3. ^ Σταύρος Παπαγιάννης (Stavros Papayiannis), ISBN 978-960-7210-71-5, 1999, 2004, p. 183
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