Jordan Popjordanov

Jordan "Orce" Popjordanov (Macedonian: Jorдaн (Opцe) Пoпjopдaнoв) (1881 in Veles - April 17, 1903 in Thessaloniki) was an ethnic Macedonian revolutionary. He is most known for being in "Gemidzhii Circle" or the Assassins from Salonica" who in the spring of 1903 launched a campaign of terror bombings in the capitol of Ottoman Macedonia, Thessalonica to draw world attention to the conditions in Macedonia under Ottoman rule. One of the buildings chosen was the French Ottoman Bank who Orce was assigned to bomb through the underground passageway dugout weeks before by the Gemidzhii. He died in the explosion on April 17.