| Vassilis Christou Rapotikas Vasil Rapotika | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1888 | ||||||||
| Death Date: | May or June 1943 | ||||||||
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Vassilis Christou Rapotikas (1888 - 1943; Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian: Vasil Rapotika; Greek, Modern (1453-);: 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.[3]