About Dimitrios Doulis
Lived 1865 – 1928 (aged 62–63). Dimitrios Doulis was a Greek military personnel, politician and member of Parliament.
Dimitrios Doulis (, 1865–1928), was a Greek military office, minister of Defence of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. He was from Nivica in modern southern Albania.
Military career Doulis was born in 1865, son of Nikolaos Doulis and descendant of Kitsos Doulis, a hero of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire (1821–30).
In 1883 he enlisted in the Hellenic Army as a volunteer. After studies in the NCO Military School, he was commissioned as an infantry second lieutenant on 20 August 1888. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, and was promoted to lieutenant on 19 April 1898, captain II class on 31 December 1904, and captain I class on 18 January 1907.
With the official declaration of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, on 18 February 1914, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Military Affairs and head of the army of the new government.
When World War I broke out, the Greek forces, after approval from the Triple Entente Powers, re-entered Northern Epirus. In the subsequent legislative elections, Dimitrios Doulis was elected as member of the Greek parliament for the Argyrokastron Prefecture. On 25 April 1915, he was promoted to colonel, and retired from the army a few days after.
He died in Athens on 5 April 1928.
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Who was Dimitrios Doulis?
Greek Army officer
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Dimitrios Doulis was born in 1865 in Sarandë District.
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Dimitrios Doulis died in 1928 in Athens.
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Dimitrios Doulis was a military personnel, politician and member of Parliament.
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