Germanos Karavangelis

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Germanos Karavangelis (in Greek:Γερμανός Καραβαγγέλης), also spelled as Yermanos and Karavaggelis or Karavagelis (1866-1935) was born in Stipsi, Lesbos.

He was a Greek Patriarchalist Metropolitan bishop of Kastoria from 1900 until 1907 appointed in the name of the Greek state by the ambasador of Greece Nikolaos Mavrokordatos^[1] and was one of the main coordinators of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia that had an aim to defend the Greek and clerical interests against the Bulgarians in then Ottoman Turkish occupied Macedonia.

He organized armed groups comprised mainly of officers of the Greek army,^[1] volunteers brought from Crete, Peloponnese^[1] and other parts of Greece,^[1] as well as recruited local Macedonian Greeks^[1] such as the chieftain Vangelis Strebreniotis from the village of Asprogia and Kotas Hristos, a former member of IMRO from the village of Rulya (later renamed by the Greek authorities as Kotas in his honour).

Karavangelis succeeded to enstrenghten the Greek positions in Macedonia and thus according to the greek historians helped the later annexation of a part of Macedonia by Greece in the Balkan Wars for what official Greece praises him as a national hero of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia ("makedonomachos"). He is the author of the book of memoirs "The Macedonian Struggle" (in Greek: Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών).

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Αρχείον Μακεδονικού Αγώνος Πηνελόπης Δέλτα, 1. Γερμανού Καραβαγγέλη, Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών (Απομνημονεύματα), Εταιρία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Ίδρυμα Μελετών Χερσονήσου του Αίμου, Θεσσαλονίκη, 1959
Germanos Karavangelis "The Macedonian struggle", Archives of the Macedonian struggle of Penelope Delta, Thessaloniki, 1959