Georgios Savvas
{{Short description|Greek revolutionary chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle}}
Georgios Savvas (Greek: Γεώργιος Σάββας) was a Greek revolutionary chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle.
{{Infobox Soldier
| honorific_prefix = Kapetan (Chieftain)
| name = Georgios Savvas
| native_name = Γεώργιος Σάββας
| image = Georgios Savvas.JPG
| caption = Savvas during the Macedonian Struggle.
| birth_date = c. 1880s
| birth_place = Thessaloniki, Salonika Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
| allegiance = {{flagicon|Kingdom of Greece|state}} Kingdom of Greece
| branch = {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} HMC
| awards = Commemorative Medal for the Macedonian Struggle
}}
Biography
Savvas was born in the 1880s in Thessaloniki. He participated in an armed group at Olympus at the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle. He soon became a leader of a small group. There he met with Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian and at the end of 1905, Mazarakis asked him to move with his team in Mariovo after the damage the Greek bodies suffered there. There, expanding his body, he cooperated with Captain Theodosis, Kapetan Garefis and Em. Katsigaris. He acted in the area of Mariovo and Almopia throughout the Macedonian Struggle, persecuting the Bulgarian groups.
Sources
- Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate, Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών και τα εις Θράκην γεγονότα, Athens 1979, p. 181, 223
- John S. Koliopoulos (editor), Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 55
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306011517/http://clubs.pathfinder.gr/MAKEDONIKOS_AGON/567230 Μακεδονικός Αγώνας, Η έναρξη του Αγώνα, οι μάχες κατά την διάρκειά του και η πορεία των πρωταγωνιστών που έλαβαν μέρος].
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Category:Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle
Category:Military personnel from Thessaloniki
Category:Macedonian revolutionaries (Greek)
Category:Year of birth uncertain