Nikolaos or Lakis Dailakis was a Greek

Greeks

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 revolutionary of the Macedonian Struggle

Macedonian Struggle

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Dailakis was born in the village of Vërnicë, Devoll District

Devoll District

The District of Devoll is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania, part of Korçë County and derives its name from the Devoll river flowing through the valley. It has a population of 33,785, and an area of 429 km². It is in the southeastern corner of the country, and its capital is Bilisht...

, modern southern Albania

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 (Northern Epirus

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). He participated in various operations of Greek guerillas groups under the revolutionarry leader Konstantinos Christou

Konstantinos Christou

Konstantinos or "Kottas" Christou was an insurgent leader associated first with the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and later with pro-Greek irregular fighters during the Greek struggle for Macedonia. He was born in the village of Rulja in Florina Prefecture in 1863...

 or Captain Kottas against Bulgarian groups in Ottoman Macedonia. During this time he was ransomed by the local Ottoman landlord Hussein bey, but although his hideout near Ziçisht

Ziçisht

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 was surrounded, he managed to escape.

After the Balkan Wars

Balkan Wars

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 Dailakis settled near the city of Kastoria

Kastoria

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, Western Macedonia, Greece

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. In 1941, during the Axis Occupation of Greece he was assasinated by the left wing resistance.

Today a quarter in the city of Kastoria

Kastoria

Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the periphery of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria peripheral unit. It is situated on a promontory on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone mountains...

bears his name.