{{Short description|Greek participant in the Macedonian Struggle}} {{Infobox Soldier | name = Nikolaos Davelis | native_name = Νικόλαος Νταβέλης | image = Νικόλαος Νταβέλης.png | caption = Nikolaos Davelis in the mid 20th century. | birth_date = c. 1880s | birth_place = [[Livadia, Kilkis|Livadia]], [[Salonika 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 Valia Siaca {{tree list/end}} }}

'''Nikolaos Davelis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Νικόλαος Νταβέλης) was a significant [[Greeks|Greek]] participant in the [[Macedonian Struggle]].

== Biography == Davelis was born and raised in [[Livadia, Kilkis|Livadia]], [[Kilkis (regional unit)|Kilkis]] in the 1880s. His family was well known for their national war participations which dates back to 1821. He formed and led an armed group. He collaborated with his fellow soldiers Stergios Naoum, Anastasios Bellis Kulina and Nikolaos Nessios. He also worked with [[Konstantinos Garefis]] several times. In 1906, in the ''Battle of Valia Siaca'', between Livadia and Ossiani (now [[Archangelos, Pella|Archangelos]]), he was arrested with other Macedonomachoi by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] authorities and imprisoned in [[Heptapyrgion (Thessaloniki)|Heptapyrgion]] of [[Thessaloniki]]. In 1908, with the [[Young Turk Revolution|revolution]] of the [[Young Turks]], a general amnesty was granted and he was freed.

== References == * [http://pefkonea.blogspot.gr/2008/11/blog-post.html Ρετζίκι, αναδρομές,στο παρελθόν,το παρόν και το μέλλον,αυτού του τόπου, Κωνσταντίνος Γεωργιάδης, Πευκονέα, 3 November 2008] * Άγγελος Κ. Ανεστόπουλος, ''Ο Μακεδονικός Αγών 1903-1908: και n συμβολή των κατοίκων εις την απελευθέρωσιν της Μακεδονίας'', Thessaloniki 1965, publication Σύνδεσμος Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών Νομού Κοζάνης, t. Β', p. 91 * Ιωάννης Σ. Κολιόπουλος (επιστημονική επιμέλεια), Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 95 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130617214943/http://vlahofonoi.blogspot.gr/2012/09/blog-post_30.html Φ. Κιλιπίρης, ''Χοάρα Μουσιάτα - Τα Λιβάδια του Πάικου, ο τόπος - η ιστορία - οι άνθρωποι'', Kilkis 2009]

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