Apostol Petkov
Apostol Petkov (Bulgarian: Апостол Петков) (May 6, 1869, Boymitsa, Ottoman Empire, today Greece – August 2, 1911, Giannitsa, Ottoman Empire, today Greece) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the national liberation movement in Ottoman Macedonia.[1][2][3] He was the first cousin of Gono Yotov, a Slavophone who after initially siding with IMRO, became a fighter for Greek interests.[4]
Petkov was often referred to by his admirers as the Sun of Yenice-i Vardar.
He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of North Macedonia. He was a leading komitaji in the armed units of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and took part in the battles against the Ottoman authorities as well before the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising as after it.[5]
Later, Petkov was one of the organizers of the Bulgarian People's Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, that initiated a military struggle against the Greek interests in Macedonia - still under Ottoman rule, but with both sides trying to fortify their positions in the area in anticipation of the impending end of the Ottoman rule.[6] Petkov was killed, under unclear circumstances, in battle against Turkish gendarmes on August 2, 1911.[7]
Notes
- ^ Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)
- ^ Алберт Сониксен. „Изповедта на един македонски четник“.
- ^ Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)
- ^ Καράβας, Σπύρος (2014). Μυστικά και παραμύθια από την ιστορία της Μακεδονίας. Athens: Βιβλιόραμα. p. 102. .
- ^ Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов. „Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968“, Издателство на Националния съвет на Отечествения фронт, София, 1968 г., стр. 142-143.
- ^ Πηνελόπη Δέλτα. "Στα μυστικά του Βάλτου", 1937.
- ^ Мария Атанасова. Ениджевардарското слънце Апостол Петков. В: „Български войводи“, София, 1985, стр. 191.