page_title: Kottas
hierarchical_section_title: Kottas
caption_attribution_description: English: The caption reads:Macedonian chieftain Kotes with his sons and a supporter. Kottas's sons, Dimitrios and Sotirios, are on his left side and his adjutant, Simos Stoiannis, is standing on his right.
context_page_description: Kote Hristov, known simply as Kote or Kottas, was a Slavophone insurgent leader in Western Macedonia.
  Kottas was born in the village of Rulja, in 1863, and was president of Roulia from 1893 to 1896. He began anti-Ottoman rebel activity in 1898, killing four local Ottoman officers. He was first associated with the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. After discovering the real purposes of IMRO against the Greek Macedonians and feeling deceived, he became associated with the pro-Greek irregular fighters during the Greek struggle for Macedonia. He was captured by the Ottomans, convicted of robbery and hanged in Monastir in 1905.
  The village he was born, now in the Florina regional unit, has been renamed Kottas in his honour.
context_section_description: Kote Hristov (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Коте Христов, Greek: Κότε Χρήστου, romanized: Kote Christou), known simply as Kote (Bulgarian/Macedonian: Коте, Greek: Κώτε(ς), Κότε(ς) or Κώτης) or Kottas (Greek: Κώτ(τ)ας), was a Slavophone insurgent leader in Western Macedonia. 
  Kottas was born in the village of Rulja (Greek Ρούλια/Roulia, Macedonian Slavic Руља), in 1863, and was president (community leader) of Roulia from 1893 to 1896. He began anti-Ottoman rebel activity in 1898, killing four local Ottoman officers. He was first associated with the  pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). After discovering the real purposes of IMRO against the Greek Macedonians and feeling deceived, he became associated with the pro-Greek irregular fighters during the Greek struggle for Macedonia. He was captured by the Ottomans, convicted of robbery and hanged in Monastir in 1905.
  The village he was born, now in the Florina regional unit, has been renamed Kottas in his honour.
caption: The photograph's inscription reads in Greek: "Macedonian warlord Kotes with his sons and a supporter."
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