Vassilis Rapotikas

Vassilis Christou Rapotikas (1888–1943; Aromanian: Vasil Rapotika; Greek: Βασίλειος Χρήστου Ραποτίκας) was an Aromanian brigand[1] 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.

[2] Rapotikas was killed in May or June 1943 by members of the Greek People's Liberation Army near Grizano.

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