Apostol Petkov

Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar (May 6, 1869, Boymitsa , today in Paionia, Greece - August 2, 1911, Giannitsa, today Greece) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia[1][2][3]

He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.He was a leading komitaji in the bands of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees and took part in the battles against the Ottoman authorities as well before the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising as after it.[4]

Later, he was one of the organizers of the military struggle against the Greeks in Macedonia - still under Ottoman rule, but with both sides trying to establish their position in the area towards that rule's impending end.[5] Petkov was killed, under unclear circumstances, in battle against Turkish gendarmes on August 2, 1911.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)
  2. ^ Алберт Сониксен. „Изповедта на един македонски четник“.
  3. ^ Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)
  4. ^ Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов. „Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968“, Издателство на Националния съвет на Отечествения фронт, София, 1968 г., стр.142-143.
  5. ^ Πηνελόπη Δέλτα. "Στα μυστικά του Βάλτου", 1937.
  6. ^ Мария Атанасова. Ениджевардарското слънце Апостол Петков. В: „Български войводи“, София, 1985, стр.191.

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