Lambros Koromilas to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thessaloniki, 26 August 1906

Extract:

Karampati, P.G., Koltouki P.G. and Michailidis I.D. (ed.) (2009), The Greek Counterattack in Macedonia (1905-1906). Thessaloniki: ΙΜΜΑ, pages 338-340.

Lambros Koromilas (1856-1923)

Politician, economist and diplomat, he was born in Athens in 1856. In the period between 1886-1888, he succeeded his brother in managing the newspaper Efimerida and in 1897-1898 he served as General Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. In January 1904, he was appointed Consul in Philippopolis (Plovdiv), where he had the opportunity to closely study the activity of the Bulgarian committees, and in May of the same year he was appointed Consul General in Thessaloniki. An imposing and dynamic personality, he was a devotee of the idea of the armed struggle against the Bulgarian committee, with the aim of strengthening the national conviction of the Greeks in Macedonia.