Gonos Giotas
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Georgios or Gonos Giotas ( also known as Macedonian
Macedonian language
Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

/, Gono Jotov; 1880-1911) was a Greek Macedonian fighter in the Macedonian Struggle
Greek Struggle for Macedonia
The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts between Greeks and Bulgarians in the region of Ottoman Macedonia between 1904 and 1908...

 from Giannitsa
Giannitsa
Giannitsa is the largest town and a former municipality in Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pella, of which it is a municipal unit...

. He was active in the area of Giannitsa, beginning his action in October 1904, initially as a guide in the lake of Giannitsa. He helped 6 villages to abjure the Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n Exarchate
Bulgarian Exarchate
The Bulgarian Exarchate was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and the Bulgarian Patriarchate was restored in 1953....

 and return to the allegiance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople , part of the wider Orthodox Church, is one of the fourteen autocephalous churches within the communion of Orthodox Christianity...

. In March 1905, he joined the first well-organized Greek military group. Next year, he cooperated with Tellos Agras
Tellos Agras
Tellos Agras was the nom de guerre of Sarantis-Tellos Agapinos , a Greek officer of the Hellenic Army who played a prominent role during the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.- Early life :...

, achieving great successes. From 1908, he started to act with his own military group, in the end of the same year he sheltered in Athens
Athens
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. He was killed in a battle with the Ottoman army at the lake of Giannitsa on 12 February of 1911, after a betrayal.
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