Petros Zappas was a Greek

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 entrepreneur and politician, and a member of the Zappas family of national benefactors from Labovë in the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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 and was briefly part of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus

Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus

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. In World War I

World War I

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, during Greek administration between October 1914 and September 1916, Petros Zappas was elected as member of the Greek Parliament for the Argyrokastron Prefecture (1915–1917) in the December 1915 elections.