c. 1871 Sfakia, Eyalet of Crete, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died
1942 Athens, Hellenic State
Resting place
First Cemetery of Athens
Alma mater
Hellenic Army Academy
Signature
Nickname(s)
Kapetan Vardas Καπετάν Βάρδας
Military service
Allegiance
Kingdom of Greece Aut. Rep. of Northern Epirus Second Hellenic Republic
Branch/service
Hellenic Army
Years of service
1893-1917 1920-1923 1927 1935
Rank
Lieutenant General
Commands
Commandant of the Hellenic Military Academy Garrison Commander of Athens
Battles/wars
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
Cretan Revolt
Macedonian Struggle
Balkan Wars
First Balkan War
Second Balkan War
North Epirote Struggle
Georgios Tsontos (Greek: Γεώργιος Τσόντος) (c. 1871-1942) also known with the nom de guerreKapetan Vardas (Καπετάν Βάρδας), was a Greek guerrilla fighter, general, and later politician from Crete.
GeorgiosTsontos (Greek: Γεώργιος Τσόντος) (c. 1871-1942) also known with the nom de guerre Kapetan Vardas (Καπετάν Βάρδας), was a Greek guerrilla fighter...
Melas, assisting him and other chieftains like Efthymios Kaoudis and GeorgiosTsontos who did not know the region well, acting in the region of Pelister...
Aposkitis§ 25 May 1934 1 June 1935 23 Georgios Frangiadakis§ 19 July 1935 10 October 1935 24 GeorgiosTsontos§ 10 October 1935 30 November 1935 25 Konstantinos...
least of which includes the aforementioned dialectal peculiarity. GeorgiosTsontos, general and politician Emmanouil Manousogiannakis, general Manousos...
with GeorgiosTsontos, acting in southern Mariovo and in the region of Florina and Prespa. At the end of May 1907, due to the departure of Tsontos and...
Struggle for Macedonia in 1906, where he would operate as a member of GeorgiosTsontos' armed band. The next year, he would become a chieftain of his own...
using Pavlos Melas's nom de guerre, Mikis Zezas, under the command of GeorgiosTsontos (Kapetan Vardas). After a dispute with him, Pyrzas was forced to retire;...
1904 he entered Macedonia as a member of his fellow Cretan officer GeorgiosTsontos. Later, he became leader of a small band in Kastanochoria (el). His...
Athens, where he met with GeorgiosTsontos. He arrived in Western Macedonia in 1904 as a deputy in the armed group of Georgios Katechakis (Captain Rouvas)...
and W. Macedonia Army Section (1940–41), Collaborationist Prime Minister during the Occupation (1941–43) Lieutenant General GeorgiosTsontos 1871 1942...
subdue the Turkish Nationalist Movement, to the Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Baltatzis. This, however, would not come to flourishment. He was also large...
Epirus (1914) as a chieftain, cooperating with the armed group of GeorgiosTsontos. Daoutis married Marika Papatzikou, they settled in Euboea and had...
Florina. He was appointed the leader of an armed group, cooperating with GeorgiosTsontos, with whom he participated in many operations in Kastanohoria and Voio...
with Pavlos Kyrou. In November of the same year, he cooperated with GeorgiosTsontos. He was killed on 19 November 1906 in an engagement with the Ottoman...
armed action began, working with Loukas Kokkinos, Athanasios Brufas, GeorgiosTsontos and Gr. Falerea. Shortly afterwards, he set up his own independent...
organized by GeorgiosTsontos. In late August he acted again in the area of Korestia. Then, in late October, Kaoudis collided with Tsontos and continued...
Sapkarov and raided Bulgarian hideout with other Chieftains such as GeorgiosTsontos. In April, he was involved in smuggling and in procuring Mannlicher...
Macedonian Struggle, as Tsontos Bardas and Pavlos Melas, brother Vasileios Melas. On June 25, 1914, Lazaros with the armed forces of Tsontos Varda and Pavlos...
looted Korça that was successively invaded by the Greek bands under Georges Tsontos-Vardas and the regular Greek army on 4 July, after a probable concord between...