Konstantinos Doumbiotis
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Konstantinos Doumbiotis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δουμπιώτης) was a Greek revolutionary and military officer.
He was born around 1793 in
.The first written mention of his name is cited in a document from May 1822 from Skopelos.
Doumbiotis took part with Karatasos and other
politarches
). His autocratic and peremptory behaviour led the local residents to request his dismissal in 1826.
After his release, in February 1829, he became a
pentacosiarch in Dimitrios Karatasos' battalion and in November 1831 he was appointed as commander of the 14th Battalion. The same year he firstly followed Dimitrios Karatasos in the movement the latter organised against Augustinos Kapodistrias. However, after a while he rejoined the regular army. In January 1832 he was besieged by Petsavas in Davleia. He was arrested with Theodoros Kolokotronis for the supposed plot against the regency for King Otto of Greece in 1833; however, thanks to Kolettis' intervention, he was freed and not put on trial. After the establishment of the Royal Phalanx in 1836 he served as a second lieutenant in the second tetrarchy of Chalcis, with Kriezotis as captain
. He settled permanently in Chalcis with his family in a house next to Saint Demetrius' church.
On 20 May 1845 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Phalanx.[1] He died in 1865 in Chalcis.
His contributions to the struggle for independence were recognised as he was made an officer of the fourth class. He was the only Chalcidian, together with
Greco-Turkish War of 1897. He died in 1911. Miltiadis' son was the medical doctor Dimitrios Doumbiotis (1874–1917), employee of the Greek consulate in Bitola, and responsible for the area of Kastoria during the Macedonian Struggle
in 1908. His son was Kosmas-Alexandros-Miltiadis, diplomatic officer (1917–1991).
References
- ^ Hellas (1845). Ἐφημερίς τῆς Κυβερνήσεως τοῦ Βασιλεῖου τῆς Ἑλλάδος (in Greek). Athens. p. 68.