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Anastasios Ntalipis (1896-1949) was a Greek politician, who was elected many times as a member of the Greek parliament and Minister-General Governor of Western Macedonia from 1946 to 1947.

Biography
Anastasios Ntalipis was born in 1896 in the village of Gavros, of the Korestia province of Kastoria county.

He was the second son of the captain of the Macedonian struggle Dimitri Ntalipi, who operated in the Korestia area, and was killed fighting against the Bulgarian komitatzi and the Ottoman army, on the 19th of November 1906 in the Asvos hill of Korestia, on the road to Prespes. After the death of their father, the young Anastasios Ntalipis and his brothers were helped to escape in the free Greece, for the fear of the Bulgarians.

In 1912, at the age of 16, presenting false documents due to his young age, he volunteered in the Greek army and participated as a soldier in the Bizani battle.

In 1917 he graduated from the Greek military school (Evelpidon) as a second lieutenant. He fought in the Asia Minor expedition where he was decorated with the golden distinction of bravery. His younger brother, second lieutenant Athanasios Ntalipis, was killed fighting in the Asia Minor expedition.

In 1923 he left the army, studied in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and worked as a surveying engineer in various areas of Greece. He was involved in politics and was elected deputy of the Kastoria-Florina county in the elections of 1932, 1935 and 1936.

In 1939 he was recalled to the army and fought in the front line of the Albanian battlefront, as a second commander and then commander of the 33rd Infantry Regiment. He was wounded in the Boubesi area (717 height) He was decorated, for a second time, with the golden distinction of bravery. He then fought in the battle of Crete and with the last English convoy (29 May 1941) he was resorted in Egypt, where he joined the Middle East allied forces. There he served as a garrison commander of Alexandria and Tel Aviv. In 1944 he came back to Greece and quit the army having the rank of Colonel.

In 1946 he was elected for the fourth time deputy of the Kastoria-Florina county. He served as a Minister–General Governor of Western Macedonia (1946-1947), during the difficult years of the civil war. (Minister-General Governor of Western Macedonia in the following governments: Government of Constantin Tsaldari April 1946, Government of Constantin Tsaldari October 1946, Government of Dimitri Maximou 1947).

He was the first Greek politician who, with an article in the newspaper Ellinikon Aima, accused Tito and Yugoslavia for their direct involvement in the Greek civil war, with the long term aim to detach the Greek Macedonia. Tito then protested to the UN, and recalled his ambassador in Greece. Anastasios Ntalipis submitted his resignation aiming to facilitate the Greek government. His resignation was not accepted and following that the Greek government complained to the UN against Yugoslavia.

In 1947, under the capacity of a Macedonian deputy, he travelled on his own expenses to the United States of America and Canada, where with speeches to the Greek communities he contradicted all the arguments of the Bulgarian and Slavomacedonian propaganda, which at that time was very active in the above mentioned countries. As a result of this trip was the unification of all Macedonian unions under the aegis of the Pammakedonikis.

Anastasios Ntalipis was married to Dimitra N. Kyrtsou, and had three children, one boy and twin girls.

Anastasios Ntalipis died in Athens on July 15th 1949, after a surgery.