{{Short description|Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle}} {{Infobox Soldier | honorific_prefix = Kapetan (Chieftain) | name = Iraklis Patikas | native_name = Ηρακλής Πατίκας | image = Iraklis Patikas Vasilika.jpg | caption = Patikas c. 1904-1908 | birth_date = c. 1870s | birth_place = [[Vasilika, Thessaloniki|Vasilika]], [[Salonika Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Greece]]) | nickname = Kapetan Iraklis (Καπετάν Ηρακλής) | allegiance = [[File:State Flag of Greece (1863-1924 and 1935-1973).svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]] | battles = [[Macedonian Struggle]] }}
'''Iraklis Patikas''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Ηρακλής Πατίκας), known as well with his nickname '''Kapetan Iraklis''', was a significant [[Greeks|Greek]] chieftain of the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
== Biography == [[File:Σώμα Ηρακλή Πατίκα.png|thumb|300px|left|Iraklis Patikas with his armed group.]]
Patikas was born in the 1870s in [[Vasilika, Thessaloniki|Vasilika]] of [[Thessaloniki (regional unit)|Thessaloniki]]. Initially, he served as a soldier in armed groups operating in the areas of [[Thermi]], [[Langadas]] and [[Polygyros]], against the [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] [[komitadji]]s who were trying to penetrate this geographical area, but also against the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] authorities. He soon emerged to a great chieftain who acted autonomously in the same areas. In the spring of 1908, he collaborated with the officers Ar. Kois, P. Papatzaneteas, D. Galanopoulos and D. Kourtzis, as well as with chieftain Georgios Vlachos, a local of [[Chalkidiki]]. In June of that year, he defeated a Bulgarian attack in [[Arnaia]]. With the [[Young Turk revolution|revolution]] of the [[Young Turks]] and the general amnesty that they gave, he returned to his home town, just like the rest of his cooperators.
In 1916, with the outbreak of the [[National Defence coup d'état|National Defense coup d'état]], the family of Patikas was expelled by the [[Venizelist]] forces, who, after destroying the property of his family, also pursued him, forcing him to escape in order to avoid imprisonment.
== Sources == * [http://www.apopsinews.gr/APOPSI_TEYXOS09.pdf ''Εφημερίδα:'' Άποψη ''και όχι μόνο'', τεύχος 9, Ιούνιος 2010, Η άποψη της Δ.Ο. ΠΑΣΟΚ Βασιλικών για την ονομασία του νέου Καλλικράτειου ∆ήμου Βασιλικών - Θέρμης - Μίκρας] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307031150/http://www.apopsinews.gr/APOPSI_TEYXOS09.pdf |date=2013-03-07 }} * [https://archive.today/20130630030532/http://palaiochori.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=37 Παλαιοχώρι Χαλκιδικής, Η ωμότητες των Βενιζελικών στη Χαλκιδική] * Konstantinos A. Vakalopoulos, ''Ο ένοπλος αγώνας στη Μακεδονία 1904-1908'', Irodotos, Thessaloniki, 1999, p. 325
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