Drakos family

The family name first appeared in the 16th century with the Armatolos Poulios Drakos, in a failed Venetian backed revolt in Arta and Epirus.

Later, it would appear alongside the main Souliote clans, and later on in the history of the Greek nation.

[2] After a failed revolt in Epirus, conducted together with Theodoros Bouas-Grivas and Malamos, other Armatoles, the chief branch of the family migrated to Souli where they were hereditary warlords of the Souliotes.

[1][dubious – discuss] Poulios Drakos' descendants remained chieftains of the Souliotes through the following centuries and his descendant Dimos Drakos was a powerful warlord who entered the Russian Army in the run-up to the Orlov Revolt.

[1][dubious – discuss] His son Georgios Drakos was a leading general of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.