Nikolaos Doumpiotis

Nikolaos Doumpiotis (Greek: Νικόλαος Δουμπιώτης; Atalanti, 1866 – Athens, 1951)[1][2][3][4][5][6] was a Greek major general.

Nikolaos Doumpiotis in 1907

He was born in Atalanti in 1866 and was descended from the Doumpiotis family (from Doumpia in Chalkidiki).[2] His father Ioannis Doumpiotis took part with Tsamis Karatasos in the 1854 Macedonian rebellion.[4][5][7] In 1882 he enlisted as a volunteer in the Greek army. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 as a second lieutenant of the 4th Infantry Regiment.[2][4][5][7] In 1907 with the rank of captain and the nom de guerre "Captain Amyntas", he went into Macedonia replacing the force of Captain Agras.[2][3][4][5][7] His area of responsibility included Veroia, Vodena and Naousa, where he fought against Bulgarian komitadjis.[2] He participated in the Balkan Wars as a major. He retired in 1923 as a major general.[2][4][5][7]

He married, in a third marriage (his first two wives had died) the daughter of the poet Georgios Souris, Myrto, with whom he had two children, Ioannis and Elisabeth. Upon the declaration of War with Italy on 28 October 1940, Ioannis enlisted as a volunteer, left for the Front and was killed in action in the first few days. The daughter Elizabeth, married and gave him two grandchildren, Dimitrios and Nikolaos Giannakopoulos. He died in Athens in 1951. ].[2][4][7]

References
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