{{Short description|Greek chieftain}} {{Infobox Soldier | name = Ioannis Boubaras | native_name = Ιωάννης Μπουμπάρας | image = Ioannis Boumbaras.JPG | caption = A photograph of Ioannis Boubaras | birth_date = c. late 1800s | death_date = c. 1905 | birth_place = [[Vlasti]], [[Monastir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]], {{small|(now [[Greece]])}} | death_place = [[Ptolemaida]], [[Monastir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] {{small|(now [[Greece]])}} | allegiance = {{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]] **Battle of Mouriki {{tree list/end}} }} '''Ioannis Boubaras''' ({{langx|el|Ιωάννης Μπουμπάρας}}) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] chieftain of the [[Macedonian Struggle]] from [[Vlasti]], [[West Macedonia]], then in the [[Ottoman Empire]].
== Biography == Ioannis Boubaras was born in the end of the 19th century in [[Vlasti]]. He participated from the beginning of the [[Macedonian Struggle]], as a rifleman, messenger, guide and liaison of the chieftains of [[Western Macedonia]]. He was a member of the ''National Committee of Blatsi'' with significant activity. He created his own armed band and cooperated with the officers [[Georgios Katechakis]], [[Petros Manos (officer)|Petros Manos]] and [[Pavlos Gyparis]] in various missions in [[Eordaia]], [[Kastoria (regional unit)|Kastoria]] and [[Florina (regional unit)|Florina]]. On 21 April 1905 he participated as a guide of various bands in the ''Battle of [[Mouriki]]'' and was arrested by the [[Ottoman Army (1861–1922)|Ottoman Army]] on the hill Sni. He was transported to [[Ptolemaida]], where he was tortured and mutilated to death.
His bust is today in a park in Ptolemaida.<ref>Ioannis S. Koliopoulos (scientific editing), ''Obscure, native Macedonian fighters'', Society for Macedonian Studies, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 101</ref><ref>Georgios Petsivas (editing), Ioannis Karavitis, The Macedonian Struggle, Athens 1994, volume II, p. 722</ref><ref>Michail Kalinderis, The life of the community of Vlatsi during the Turcocracy in the frame of the West Macedonian environment, Thessaloniki 1987, p. 163</ref><ref>Georgios Galanos, The martyric sacrifice of Blatsiotis Giannis Bomparas, magazine: Macedonian Life, issue 261, 1988, pp. 36 - 38</ref><ref>Georgios Tonias, Giannis Bomparas, the ethnomartyr of Blatsi, magazine: Macedonian Life, issue 49, 1970, pp. 46 - 49</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329040146/http://e-istoria.com/2013_makedonagon%20(12).html e-istoria, Macedonian Struggle]
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