Dimitrios Doulis
Dimitrios Doulis | |
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Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Albania) | |
Died | 1928 Athens, Second Hellenic Republic |
Allegiance | Kingdom of Greece (1883–1914, 1914–1915) Aut. Rep. Northern Epirus (February–October 1914) |
Service/ | Hellenic Army |
Years of service | 1883–1915 |
Rank | Colonel |
Battles/wars | Greco-Turkish War (1897) Balkan Wars Greek Parliament (1915-1917) |
Dimitrios Doulis (Greek: Δημήτριος Δούλης, 1865–1928), was a Greek military office, minister of Defence of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. He was from Nivica in modern southern Albania .
Military career
Doulis was born in 1865,[1] son of Nikolaos Doulis and descendant of Kitsos Doulis, a hero of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire (1821–30).
In 1883 he enlisted in the
He participated in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 as a major (promoted just before the war's outbreak, on 16 September 1912). During the First Balkan War, he commanded the 3rd Battalion of the 15th Infantry Regiment on the Epirus front. He captured Preveza and fought in the Battle of Bizani. In the Second Balkan War, he fought in the area of Nevrokopi, being wounded during the Battle of Predel Han on 17 July 1913.[2]
In Northern Epirus
After the war's end, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 September 1913, and made commander of the
During the Balkan Wars, the Hellenic Army had occupied the region of
With the official declaration of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, on 18 February 1914, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Military Affairs and head of the army of the new government.[2] From the first days he managed to mobilize an army consisting of more than 5,000 volunteer troops, and organize local gendarmerie units (called "Sacred Bands") in order to secure the region. Until May 17 (New Style), when the Protocol of Corfu was signed, the autonomist Epirote forces managed retain their positions and push back the attacks of Albanian irregulars and gendarmerie, which was under the command of Dutch officers.[5]
When World War I broke out, the Greek forces, after approval from the Triple Entente Powers, re-entered Northern Epirus. In the subsequent legislative elections, Dimitrios Doulis was elected as member of the Greek parliament for the Argyrokastron Prefecture.[6] On 25 April 1915, he was promoted to colonel,[2] and retired from the army a few days after.
He died in Athens on 5 April 1928.[2][1]
References
- ^ OCLC 31255024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Σχης (ΠΖ) Δημήτριος Δούλης" (in Greek). Hellenic Army Professional NCO Academy. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- Old Style.
- ISBN 0-8047-6171-X
- ISBN 978-3-486-56173-9.
- ^ Albania's Captives. Pyrrhus J. Ruches. Argonaut, 1965. p. 97.