Ioannis Boubaras () was a Greek chieftain of the Macedonian Struggle from Vlasti, West Macedonia, then in the Ottoman Empire.
Biography Ioannis Boubaras was born in the end of the 19th century in Vlasti. He participated from the beginning of the Macedonian Struggle, as a rifleman, messenger, guide and liaison of the chieftains of Western Macedonia. He was a member of the National Committee of Blatsi with significant activity. He created his own armed band and cooperated with the officers Georgios Katechakis, Petros Manos and Pavlos Gyparis in various missions in Eordaia, Kastoria and Florina. On 21 April 1905 he participated as a guide of various bands in the Battle of Mouriki and was arrested by the Ottoman Army on the hill Sni. He was transported to Ptolemaida, where he was tortured and mutilated to death.
His bust is today in a park in Ptolemaida.Ioannis S. Koliopoulos (scientific editing), Obscure, native Macedonian fighters, Society for Macedonian Studies, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, 2008, p. 101Georgios Petsivas (editing), Ioannis Karavitis, The Macedonian Struggle, Athens 1994, volume II, p. 722Michail Kalinderis, The life of the community of Vlatsi during the Turcocracy in the frame of the West Macedonian environment, Thessaloniki 1987, p. 163Georgios Galanos, The martyric sacrifice of Blatsiotis Giannis Bomparas, magazine: Macedonian Life, issue 261, 1988, pp. 36 - 38Georgios Tonias, Giannis Bomparas, the ethnomartyr of Blatsi, magazine: Macedonian Life, issue 49, 1970, pp. 46 - 49
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External links e-istoria, Macedonian Struggle