Theodoros Modis

Theodoros Modis (Greek: Θεόδωρος Μόδης) was born in Monastiri (today's Bitola, in North Macedonia) from a Greek family with Vlach roots (BG:Теодорос Модис.) He was a lumber merchant and a scholar.[1][2]

Photograph of the funeral of Theodoros Modis.
Theodoros and his wife Paraskevi.

He was among those who helped the founders of the Revolutionary Internal Organization in its formation, in order to defend Greek interests in Macedonia (Ottoman Empire at the time.).[3] He was assassinated in his shop by Bulgarian komitadji on September 4, 1904. His assassination, like the killing of Pavlos Melas a month later, is among the violent events that marked the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle (Μακεδονικός Αγώνας in Greek).[4]

He is the grandfather of Theodore Modis, the great grandfather of Yorgo Modis, and the uncle of Georgios Modis.

Notes
  1. Theodore Modis, Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2018, pp. 11-16,41-49.
  2. Γεώργιος Χ. Μόδης, Αναμνήσεις, Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004 (published posthumously), pp. 65-66, 79-80.
  3. Vakalopoulos, Konstantinos (1981). "Η εθνική δράση του Γεωργίου και Ιωάννου Ξανθού (Γευγελή) και του Αλεξ. Ζουμετίκου (Μοναστήρι) κατά το Μακεδονικό Αγώνα". Makedonika. 21: 400. doi:10.12681/makedonika.442.
  4. Σταμάτης Ράπτης, Ιστορία του Mακεδονικού Αγώνος, Athens: Αναγνωστόπουλος & Πετράκος, 1925, pp. 6, 20-24.
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