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Theodoros Modis (Greek language: Θεόδωρος Μόδης) was a Greeks lumber merchant and scholar from Bitola (today's Bitola, in North Macedonia).Theodore Modis, Fortune Favors the Bold: A Woman’s Odyssey through a Turbulent Century, Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2018, pp. 11-16,41-49.Γεώργιος Χ. Μόδης, Αναμνήσεις, Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004 (published posthumously), pp. 65-66, 79-80.
He was among those who helped the founders of the Revolutionary Internal Organization in its formation, in order to defend Greek interests in Macedonia (Ottoman Empire at the time.). He was assassinated in his shop by Bulgarians komitadji on September 4, 1904. His assassination, like the killing of Pavlos Melas a month later, is among the violent events that marked the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle ( Μακεδονικός Αγώνας in Greek).Σταμάτης Ράπτης, Ιστορία του Mακεδονικού Αγώνος, Athens: Αναγνωστόπουλος & Πετράκος, 1925, pp. 6, 20-24.
He is the grandfather of Theodore Modis, the great-grandfather of Yorgo Modis, and the uncle of Georgios Modis.
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