{{Short description|Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle}} {{Infobox Soldier | honorific_prefix = | name = Periklis Drakos | native_name = Περικλής Δράκος | image = PERIKLIS DRAKOS.jpg | caption = Perilkis Drakos during the Macedonian Struggle | birth_place = [[Kavala]], [[Adrianople Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]], {{small|(now [[Greece]])}} | allegiance = {{flagicon|Kingdom of Greece|state}} [[Kingdom of Greece]] | branch = {{army|Greece}} | battles = {{tree list}} *[[Macedonian Struggle]] *[[Balkan Wars]] **[[First Balkan War]] **[[Second Balkan War]] {{tree list/end}} }}
'''Periklis Drakos''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Περικλής Δράκος) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] chieftain of the [[Macedonian Struggle]].
== Biography == Drakos was born in [[Kavala]] in the late 19th century. He started his armed action during the [[Macedonian Struggle]], initially collaborating with the ''National Center of [[Xanthi]]''. Among other things, his mission was to transfer guns to other Greek rebels. Later, he set up an armed body that operated in the regions of Kavala and Xanthi. He was associated with the murder of Iliya Hadzhigeorgiev, a member of the [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] Committee in Xanthi.<ref>[https://media.ems.gr/ekdoseis/makedonika/makedonika_35/ekd_pemk_35_Papazoglou.pdf Η παιδεία στην Ανατολική Μακεδονία, Ο Ελληνικός Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως και η Αδελφότης ''Ηώς'' Προσοτσάνης (1870-1880), Γ. Κ. Παπάζογλου, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης, ''Μακεδονικά Χρονικά'', Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών]</ref>
His armed group took part in the [[First Balkan War]] under the command of [[Konstantinos Mazarakis-Ainian]], [[Vasileios Papakostas]] and [[Georgios Galanopoulos]]. He was firstly sent to [[Chalkidiki]] to strengthen the body of [[Ioannis Ramnalis]] against the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces and then sent to [[Nigrita]] to support Georgios Giaglis against the [[Bulgarians]]. There, the Bulgarian army did not recognize the forces of Georgios Giaglis and Periklis Drakos as belonging to the [[Hellenic Army]]—and thus, under the terms of the [[Balkan League]], as co-combatants—and asked to occupy the city. Following the refusal of the Macedonian chieftains, the Bulgarians attacked, but in the battle that followed, they were defeated. In the [[Second Balkan War]], Drakos and his group took part in several battles against the Bulgarian forces.
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== Sources == * Αρχείο Διεύθυνσης Εφέδρων Πολεμιστών Αγωνιστών Θυμάτων Αναπήρων (ΔΕΠΑΘΑ), Αρχείο Μακεδονικού Αγώνα, φ. Δ-33 * [[John S. Koliopoulos]] (editor), Αφανείς, γηγενείς Μακεδονομάχοι, Εταιρεία Μακεδονικών Σπουδών, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 66
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