Kapetan Tellos Agras

"Kapetan" Tellos Agras was a Greek military figure during the Struggle for Macedonia, which pitted Greeks not only against the Ottoman rulers of Macedonia but also the Bulgarian guerrilas who sought to annex the region to Bulgaria.

Agras was born in Messinia in 1880. At the time of the Struggle for Macedonia, he was a lieutenant in the Greek Army. He crossed over the border into Macedonia as head of a band of guerrilas and fought in the swamps of Giannitsa.

On June 5, 1907, the Bulgarian leader invited him to negotiate but, instead, imprisoned him and had him hanged near Edessa.