Anastasios Pichion

Anastasios Pichion or Picheon (1836 – 24 March 1913) was a Greek educator and revolutionary of the Macedonian Struggle of Aromanian ethnicity.

Biography He was born in Ohrid in 1836, during the Ottoman period. He was an Aromanian, having been born to Aromanian parents or the Moscopole region. both Epirotes from Grammeno, Ioannina, the first being a doctor and scholar and the second being a professor of the University of Athens.

The Picheon mansion in Kastoria, now the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle.

New Filiki Etaireia

In 1867 he founded the National Committee ("Εθνική Επιτροπή"), with Nikolaos Philippides from Monastir, Thomas Pashides from Epirus and Ioannes Argyropoulos from Kleisoura, which quickly expanded from Vogatsiko to Korytsa, with the participation of Ioannes Siomos, Argyrios Vouzas, Nikolaos Toutountzes, Vasileios and Nikolaos Orogopoulos Retzis and Apostolos Sahines.

The New Filiki Etaireia, as it was named after its expansion, aimed to incite an uprising in Macedonia against the Turks. At the start of 1888, 15 Kleisourans and more than 40 Kastorians together with Vogatsians mainly and Korytsans were arrested by the Ottoman authorities and finally led to the prisons of Monastir to be tried. Anastasion Pichion took responsibility and in the end didn't lose his life because of the impact his arrest made internationally. The phrase of the Kastorians as they saw Ioannis Argyropoulos being led to the prisons became proverbial: "...again they brought you doctor!" ("...πάλι σε φέρανε γιατρέ!").

Because of his activities he was imprisoned for six months in Monastir and later transferred to the fortress of Acre, from where he escaped to Athens with the help of the Greek deputy ambassador. After of two years of fruitless effort to find employment, he was appointed as a professor in the Rizareios School, where he taught until 1908. With the amnesty given in 1908 with the Young Turk Revolution he returned to Kastoria.

He died in 1913, a year after the annexation of Kastoria by Greece.