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Alexandros Karapanos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Καραπάνος, 1873-1946) was a Greek politician and diplomat. He was born in from Arta (Epirus) and died in Athens.
He was the son of the politician and archeologist Konstantinos Karapanos. He studied law and political science in Paris and at 1899 he joined the Greek diplomatic corps and became the country’s ambassador on several European capitals during the following years. At the outbreak of the Balkan Wars he was appointed political-diplomatic advisor of the Army of Epirus.
At February 1914, when the Great Powers awarded the region of Northern Epirus, which was under the control of the Greek army, to the Principality of Albania, he moved to Gjirokastër and became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the provisional autonomous government formed by the local Greek population. His relative, Georgios Christakis-Zografos, was the head of this government. After successful negotiations with the representatives of the Great Powers and William of Wied of Albania, in May, the Protocol of Corfu was signed which granted full autonomy to Northern Epirus.[1]
At the Greek elections of 1915 he became MP for Arta, and in 1916 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece.[2] He launched negotiations for the country’s participation with the Triple Entente in the First World War, but negotiations finally reached a deadlock.
Karapanos participated at the Paris Peace Conference (1919), as a representative of the Northern Epirotes. In 1920 he became again an MP. Two years later, following the Asia Minor Catastrophe, he disagreed with the policies of the military revolt of September 1922, and rejected an offer to become Prime Minister of Greece.
Continuing his diplomatic activity, he was sent to Rome in 1923 to negotiate with Italy, after the Corfu incident. In 1928 he became again Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the cabinet of Eleftherios Venizelos (4 July 1928-7 Juny 1929). During this period Greece signed a number of treaties with Italy and Yugoslavia.
Alexandros Karapanos was the founder of the newspaper Elefthero Vima, which is known today as To Vima ("the podium" in Greek) and the magazine Politiki Epitheorisi ("Political Review").
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^ http://www.indiana.edu/~league/ministergreece.htm
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