Germanos Karavangelis

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

He was a metropolitan bishop of Kastoria, in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, from 1900 until 1907 appointed in the name of the Greek state by the ambassador of Greece Nikolaos Mavrokordatoscite book |title=Αρχείον Μακεδονικού Αγώνος Πηνελόπης Δέλτα, 1. |author=Γερμανού Καραβαγγέλη |chapter=Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών (Απομνημονεύματα), Εταιρία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, Ίδρυμα Μελετών Χερσονήσου του Αίμου |location=Θεσσαλονίκη |title=1959 |language=Greek] and was one of the main coordinators of the Greek Struggle for Macedonia that had an aim to defend the Greek and Greek Orthodox clerical interests against the Bulgarians in then Ottoman Turkish-ruled Macedonia.

He organized armed groups comprised mainly of officers of the Greek army, volunteers brought from Crete, Peloponnese and other parts of Greece, as well as recruited local Macedonian Greeks such as the chieftain Vangelis Strebreniotis from the village of Srebreni (now Asprogeia) and Kotas Hristos, a former member of Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (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 incorporation of a part of Macedonia by Greece in the Balkan Wars, for which Greece officially 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" (Greek: Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών).

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*Greek Struggle for Macedonia
*Pavlos Melas