Cola Nicea | |
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 Cola Nicea (leftmost person) and his band in 1907, in Veria; photograph by the Manaki brothers | |
| Born | 1886 Kato Seli, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Died | Unknown |
| Allegiance |  IMRO |
| Battles / wars | Macedonian Struggle |
| Alma mater | Commercial Lyceum of Thessaloniki |
Cola Nicea (1886 – ?; Bulgarian and Macedonian: Кола Нича, Kola Nicha; Greek: Νικόλαος Νίτσια, Nikolaos Nitsia) was an Ottoman-born Aromanian armatole revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was part of the first Aromanian band of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), leading it as voivode for a time. Once the conflicts in Macedonia ended, Nicea emigrated to Romania.
During the last years of his life, Nicea wrote Memorii ("Memoirs"), one of the only first-hand accounts on the Aromanian fighters during the conflicts in Ottoman Macedonia. It provides valuable information on the identity and motivations of these Aromanians and on their collaboration with the IMRO, as well as on the ethnic dynamics of the time.