Armen Kouptsios

Who was Armen Kouptsios?

Armen Kouptsios was born in Volakas, in 1885. He met the Greek Macedonian fighter Capetan Dais, when Dais, as a teacher in Prosotsani, was organizing, in secret the Macedonian Struggle in Drama. To him, Kouptsios revealed his will to fight for mother Greece, until death.

The archdeacon of Bishop of Drama, Chrysostomos, Themistoklis Chatzistavrou, in the Macedonian Diary of 1965, writes "The Organization that was initiated the Greeks was completely secret. We were trying to keep Bishop Chrysostomos away from the danger. We wanted to protect him from the danger, that his surging character and his fiery patriotism, were leading him. Ion Dragoumis was the general leader of the Organization. I was in charge to adjure the initiated members in Drama. I was the one to adjure Armen from Volakas and Valavanis from Petroussa. We were giving them guns."

Armen Kouptsios became one of the most trusted men of Chrysostomos and he was incorporated in the revolting troops, that were acting in Drama. The revolting troops of Drama fought many times the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, well-armed troops, and caused many losses to them.