{{distinguish|Theodore Modis}} [[File:Theodoros_Modis_Funeral.jpg|thumb|Photograph of the funeral of Theodoros Modis.]] [[File:Greek_Macedonian_Theodoros_Modis_Bitola.JPG|thumb|Theodoros and his wife Paraskevi.]]
'''Theodoros Modis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Θεόδωρος Μόδης) was a [[Greeks|Greek]] lumber merchant and scholar from [[Bitola|Monastiri]] (modern Bitola, [[North Macedonia]]).<ref>Theodore Modis, ''Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century'', Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2018, pp. 11-16,41-49.</ref><ref>Γεώργιος Χ. Μόδης, ''Αναμνήσεις'', Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004 (published posthumously), pp. 65-66, 79-80.</ref>
He was among those who helped the founders of the Revolutionary Internal Organization in its formation, in order to defend Greek interests in Macedonia (Ottoman Empire at the time.).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Vakalopoulos |first=Konstantinos |title=Η εθνική δράση του Γεωργίου και Ιωάννου Ξανθού (Γευγελή) και του Αλεξ. Ζουμετίκου (Μοναστήρι) κατά το Μακεδονικό Αγώνα |journal=Makedonika |date=1981 |volume=21 |page= 400 |url=https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/makedonika/article/download/6003/5741 |doi= 10.12681/makedonika.442|doi-access=free }}</ref> He was assassinated in his shop by [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] [[komitadji]] on September 4, 1904. His assassination, like the killing of [[Pavlos Melas]] a month later, is among the violent events that marked the beginning of the [[Macedonian Struggle]] (''Μακεδονικός Αγώνας'' in Greek).<ref>Σταμάτης Ράπτης, ''Ιστορία του Mακεδονικού Αγώνος'', Athens: Αναγνωστόπουλος & Πετράκος, 1925, pp. 6, 20-24.</ref>
He is the grandfather of [[Theodore Modis]], the great-grandfather of [[Yorgo Modis]], and the uncle of [[Georgios Modis]].
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