Nikostratos Kalomenopoulos
Nikostratos Kalomenopoulos (Greek: Νικόστρατος Καλομενόπουλος) was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of major general.
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He was born at Syros in 1865.[1] After studies in the NCO School, he was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in 1891.[1] In 1892, he went in disguise to Crete, then still under Ottoman rule, and secretly mapped the island, but was discovered, arrested, and expelled.[1] In 1896, he joined the Cretan uprising against the Ottomans, as head of the Amari Province.[1] In 1897, he joined the Greek expeditionary force to the island under Colonel Timoleon Vassos.[1]
In 1905, he went to Macedonia to command an armed band during the Macedonian Struggle. He was captured by the Ottoman authorities and condemned to five years imprisonment at Monastir, but managed to escape three years later.[1] He fought in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, being wounded during the Battle of Sarantaporo in 1912.[1]
In 1914–1916 he commanded the Lesbos infantry regiment, and the 3rd Serres Regiment in the Serres Division in 1917.[1] In 1918–19 he commanded the 8th Infantry Division, and in 1919, he served as garrison commander of Smyrna during its occupation by the Greek army.[1] In 1920, he was military governor of Athens, and retired in August 1921.[1]
Apart from his military career, Kalomenopoulos was also the author of a number of studies, including on the military history of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
