{{Short description|Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle}} {{Infobox Soldier | honorific_prefix = Kapetan (Chieftain) | name = Nikolaos Gousios | native_name = Νικόλαος Γούσιος | birth_date = {{circa}} 1880s | birth_place = Demir Hisar, [[Salonika Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Sidirokastro, Serres|Sidirokastro]], [[Greece]]) | allegiance = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = * {{flagicon image|Seal of the Greek-Macedonian Committee.jpg}} [[Hellenic Macedonian Committee|HMC]] * {{army|Greece}} | battles = [[Macedonian Struggle]]<br>[[Balkan Wars]] *[[First Balkan War]] *[[Second Balkan War]] | other_work = Teacher }}
'''Nikolaos Gousios''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Νικόλαος Γούσιος) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] chieftain of the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
== Biography == Gousios was born in the 1880s in Demir hisar, then [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[Sidirokastro]], [[Greece]]) of [[Serres (regional unit)|Serres]]. He set up an armed group that was active until 1906 in the area of [[Sintiki]], Serres and [[Petrich]]. From 1906 to 1907, he cooperated with the bodies of [[Doukas Gaitatzis]] and [[Stergios Vlachveis]] as the leader of his own group. He took part in many operations against [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] groups operating in the region. After 1908, he was placed as a teacher at the Greek School of [[Starchevo]], having as mission the information about the movements of the Bulgarians in the region. He was often imprisoned by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman authorities]] for his actions. With the outbreak of the [[First Balkan War]], he rushed to be a volunteer.
== Sources & References == * Αρχείο Διεύθυνσης Εφέδρων Πολεμιστών Αγωνιστών Θυμάτων Αναπήρων (ΔΕΠΑΘΑ), Αρχείο Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, φ. Γ-241 * [[John S. Koliopoulos]] (editor), Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 158
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