Vassilis Rapotikas

Vassilis Christou Rapotikas (1888–1943; Aromanian: Vasil Rapotika; Greek: Βασίλειος Χρήστου Ραποτίκας) was an Aromanian revolutionary and collaborationist paramilitary leader in Greece during World War II. He was among leaders of the Roman Legion of the short-lived Italian puppet state of Pindus, right behind Alcibiades Diamandi and Nicolaos Matussis. This unit sought to carve out a permanent and independent Aromanian state in the Greek regions of Thessaly and Macedonia.[1] Rapotikas was killed in May or June 1943 by members of the Greek People's Liberation Army near Grizano.[2]

Vassilis Christou Rapotikas
Vasil Rapotika
Born1888
Gramos, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
DiedMay or June 1943
Grizano, Greece
Military career
AllegiancePrincipality of Pindus
 Kingdom of Italy
Service/branchRoman Legion
Years of service1941–1943

References
  1. British Reports on Greece 1943–1944, John Melior Stevens, Christopher Montague Woodhouse, David John Wallace, Lars Bærentzen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1982, pp. 36–37
  2. Σταύρος Παπαγιάννης (Stavros Papayiannis), ISBN 978-960-7210-71-5, 1999, 2004, p. 183
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