Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Μηλιώτης-Κομνηνός, born 1854, year of death missing) was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the Balkan Wars, where he held the rank of Colonel and commanded the 6th Infantry Division. During the First World War, he supported the Venizelist Movement of National Defence, and became Minister of War in the provisional government on 6 December 1916. In 1919, as a Lieutenant General, he became the first head of the Army of Occupation in the Smyrna Zone allocated to Greece by the Treaty of Sèvres, until the arrival of Lt Gen Leonidas Paraskevopoulos. He was dismissed from the Army on 29 November 1920, following the Venizelist defeat in the elections of the same month.

Sources

• (Greek) Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαιδεία. Τόμος Δ′: Καβάδης – Μωριάς [Great Military and Naval Encyclopedia. Volume IV]. Athens. 1929. p. 187.