# Andreas Kopasis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andreas_Kopasis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andreas_Kopasis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Kopasis > Source revision: 1344753076 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Prince of Samos from 1908 to 1912 This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Andreas Kopasis" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Greek. (August 2025) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Greek Wikipedia article at [[:el:Ανδρέας Κοπάσης]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|el|Ανδρέας Κοπάσης}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message) Andreas Kopasis Prince of Samos In office January 1908 – 22 March 1912 Preceded by Georgios Georgiadis Succeeded by Grigorios Vegleris Personal details Born 1856 (1856) Sfakia Died 22 March 1912(1912-03-22) (aged 55–56) Samos **Andreas Kopasis** was the [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire)-appointed [Prince of Samos](/source/Prince_of_Samos) from 1908 to 1912. His tenure was widely regarded as pro-Turkish and tyrannical. His bringing in of additional Ottoman troops in 1908 caused a revolt to break out among the Samians, which was quelled brutally by further Ottoman reinforcements. The leaders of the pro-Greek opposition, including [Themistoklis Sophoulis](/source/Themistoklis_Sophoulis), fled the island for Greece. Kopasis was assassinated by a pro-Sophoulis agent on 22 March 1912.The determination of the Hegemon of Samos never wavered, trying by every means to impose order and Ottoman rule on the island, suppressing every outbreak of violence and disorder. Kopasis was assassinated following a plan prepared by the Macedonian fighters [Stavros Kazantzis (Baretis)](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stavros_Kazantzis_(Baretis)&action=edit&redlink=1) and Athanasios Stavroudis and the "Macedonian Committee of Athens", allied to Sofoulis, on 9/22 March 1912, with his entourage also killing Stavros Baretis. v t e Princes of Samos Stefan Bogoridi (1833–50) Alexandros Kallimachis (1850–54) Ion Ghica (1854–59) Miltiadis Aristarchis (1859–66) Pavlos Mousouros (1866–73) Georgios Georgiadis (acting, 1873) Konstantinos Adosidis (1873–74) Konstantinos Photiadis (1874–79) Konstantinos Adosidis (1879–85) Alexandros Karatheodoris (1885–95) George Berovich (1895–96) Stephanos Mousouros (1896–99) Konstantinos Vagianis (1899–1900) Michail Grigoriadis (1900–02) Alexandros Mavrogenis (1902–04) Ioannis Vithynos (1904–06) Konstantinos Karatheodoris (1906–07) Georgios Georgiadis (1907–08) Andreas Kopasis (1908–12) Grigorios Vegleris (1912) Authority control databases International VIAF WorldCat National United States This Ottoman biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ottoman-bio-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AOttoman-bio-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Ottoman-bio-stub) This Greek biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Greece-bio-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AGreece-bio-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Greece-bio-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Andreas Kopasis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Kopasis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Kopasis?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.