Dimitrios Dalipis

{{Short description|Greek Macedonian fighter and chieftain}} {{Infobox Soldier | name = Dimitrios Dalipis | native_name = Δημήτριος Νταλίπης | image = Demetrios-Dalipis.jpg | caption = Dimitrios Dalipis c. 1904 | birth_date = c. mid 19th century | death_date = 19 November 1906 | birth_place = [[Korestia|Gavros]], [[Monastir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] {{small|(now [[Greece]])}} | death_place = Zelovo, [[Monastir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] {{small|(now [[Antartiko]], [[Greece]])}} | birth_name = Dimitrios Kechagias / Konstantinidis<br>{{small|Δημήτριος Κεχαγιάς / Κωνσταντινίδης}} | allegiance = {{flagicon image|Flag of the IMRO.svg}} [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|IMRO]] (1903)<br>{{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]] | battles = {{tree list}} *[[Macedonian Struggle]]{{KIA}} **[[Ilinden Uprising]] **Battle of Zelovo {{tree list/end}} | children = [[Anastasios Dalipis]] }} '''Dimitrios Kechagias''' ({{langx|el|Δημήτριος Κεχαγιάς}}; Gavros, [[Korestia]], 19th century – [[Antartiko|Zelovo]], [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]], 19 November 1906) or '''Konstantinidis''' ({{langx|el|Κωνσταντινίδης}}), known under the pseudonym '''Dimitrios Dalipis''' ({{langx|el|Δημήτριος Νταλίπης}}), was a [[Greeks|Greek]] chieftain of the [[Macedonian Struggle]].

== Biography == Dimitrios Dalipis, son of Konstantinos, was born in the middle of the 19th century in [[Korestia|Gavros]], in what was the [[Manastir vilayet|Monastir Vilayet]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], to a family of stock farmers. He was a [[Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia|slavophone]]<ref name="AGM">Ioannis S. Koliopoulos (editor), ''Obscure, native Macedonian fighters''. Society for Macedonian Studies, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 76</ref> and his family's real last name was ''Kechagias''. He took on the pseudonym "''Dalipis''" from the famous [[klepht]] and revolutionary Stefanos Dalipis, one of the leaders of the [[1878 Macedonian rebellion]]. He was one of the most powerful chieftains in Korestia fighting for the Greek side. He initially joined the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|IMRO]] during the [[Ilinden Uprising]]. However, he later left the organisation when it turned against the Greek population. He entered the service of the [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee]] where he initially cooperated with [[Kottas|Kottas Christou]] and then with [[Pavlos Melas]]. After the latter's death in 1904, he cooperated consecutively with [[Georgios Katechakis]], [[Efthymios Kaoudis]] and [[Ioannis Karavitis]]. In 1905, he and Katechakis took part in the battle of [[Antartiko|Zelovo]] with [[Pavlos Kyrou]]. In November of the same year, he cooperated with [[Georgios Tsontos]].

He was killed on 19 November 1906 in an engagement with the [[Ottoman Army (1861–1922)|Ottoman Army]]<ref name="AGM" /><ref>Hellenic Army General Staff, Army History Directorate, ''The Macedonian Struggle and the Events in Thrace'', Athens 1979, p. 107, 111, 155, 297</ref> or in a Bulgarian ambush<ref>G. Ch. Modis, ''Macedonian Struggle and Macedonian leaders'', Society for Macedonian Studies, second edition, Thessaloniki 2007, p. 195.</ref> in Zelovo, Florina, at ''Asvou Rachi (The Badger's Back)''.

His son was [[Anastasios Dalipis]], a colonel of the [[Hellenic Army]] who later served as deputy minister of Northern Greece in the [[Dimitrios Maximos]] government, and member of [[National Union of Greece|EEE]].

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