Tellos Agras
Tellos Agras ( Greek Τέλλος Άγρας , actually Sarandos (Tellos) Agapinos Σαράντος Αγαπηνός, born February 17, 1880 in Nafplio ; † July 7, 1907 ) was a Greek officer in the Greek army . He became known as a guerrilla fighter in the battle for Macedonia .
Life
Agapinos' family was wealthy and came from Gargaliani in Messenia . His father Andreas Agapinos was a judge in Nafplio. In 1895 Tellos Agapinos entered the Greek Military Academy (Στρατιωτική Σχολή Ευελπίδων), from which he graduated in 1901 as a lieutenant .
As early as 1904 after the death of Pavlos Melas , Agapinos volunteered, like many young officers, to fight for Macedonia, a guerrilla war against Ottoman rule and against Bulgarian competitors. Due to his age, the application was initially rejected. In September 1906 he was commissioned with twelve men, including some Evzones , to infiltrate Ottoman territory from Thessaly in the marshland of Lake Giannitsa . The aim was to gain control of the strategically important communication and trade routes in Central Macedonia with terrorist means. He took the battle name Tellos Agras or Kapetan Agras.
Aftermath
- The life of Tellos Agras became known and popular in Greece through the historical novel Sta mystika tou Valtou ( Στα μυστικά του Βάλτου 'In the secrets of the swamp' ) by the Pinelopi Delta . In 1992 Panos Theodoridis published a radio play about Kapetan Agras.
- The village of Agras in Central Macedonia is named after Tellos Agras.
- The Greek writer Evangelos Ioannou (Ευάγγελος Ιωάννου) used the pseudonym Tellos Agras.
literature
- Douglas Dakin: The Greek struggle in Macedonia 1897–1913. Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki 1966, pp. 279ff. (English)
- Georgios Liakouris: ΤΕΛΛΟΣ ΑΓΡΑΣ (ΣΑΡΑΝΤΟΣ Ή ΣΑΡΑΝΤΕΛΛΟΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΝΟΣ), in: Ethnikes Epalxis, No. 82, Athens 2008 ( Σ.Ε.ΕΘ.Α online , PDF pages 9–11 (Greek))
Web links
- Macedonian Fighters , Foundation of the Hellenic World (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Michael Peschke: International encyclopedia of pseudonyms. Part 1. Real names, A – Bradds. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24961-6 , p. 23: → Agapenos . ( Digitized extract from Google Books )
- ^ The Greek counter offensive of 1904 and the Macedonian Struggle up to 1908 , Foundation of the Hellenic World (English)
- ↑ The Macedonian Struggle, The Macedonian Struggle on the marshes of Yannitsa , Macedonian Heritage (English)
- ↑ Penelopi Delta, Στα μυστικά του βάλτου, Estia, Athens, first edition 1937 ( Book information of the University of Crete, Rethymno 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. (Greek)
- ↑ Peter Mackridge, Macedonia and the Macedonians in: Sta Mystika tou Valtou (1937) by PS Delta, p. 41 f. Digitized extract from Google Books ) (English)
- ↑ Panos Theodoridis, Το ηχομυθιστόρημα του καπετάν ¨Αγρα To ichomithistorima tou kapetan Agra, The sound novel of Captain Agras, first edition 1992 [1]
- ↑ Konstantinos Kosmas, After history: history, historical novel and national identities at the end of the 20th century. (Dissertation, abstract online [2] )
- ^ Agras village, Pella community ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Greek)
- ↑ Agras, Pella (English)
- ↑ Konstantinos Dimaras, A history of modern Greek literature, New York 1972, p. 464, ( digitized excerpt from Google books ) (English)
- ↑ Bruce Merry , Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature, Westport 2004, p. 4, ( digitized excerpt from Google books ) (English)
- ↑ Καπετάν Αγρας: Ποιοί και γιατί τον κρέμασαν; ( Memento from February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Greek)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agras, Tellos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Άγρας, Τέλλος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek guerrilla fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nafplio |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1907 |