Mirche Atsev

Mirche Atsev
A photograph of Mirche Atsev
Born	1859 Oreovec, today Republic of Macedonia
Died	1901 Ulanci, today Republic of Macedonia
Organization	IMARO

Mirche Atsev, nicknamed Orovchanets, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a leader of an Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) revolutionary band.

Biography

Mirche Atsev standing

Mirche Atsev was born in 1859 in the village of Oreovec in the Prilep district, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He was named after his father, Mirche Atsev, who was a well-known voyvoda. He schooled himself in Prilep and then he worked as a shepherd. Together with his brothers, Petar and Georgi, he joined the revolutionary activity of the IMARO against the Turkish authorities. After the murder of this father, he joined the revolutionary band of Kone Pavlov, but he was arrested and imprisoned in Solun. He escaped from prison and moved to Bulgaria. During his stay in Sofia, he was accused of involvement in the murder of Stefan Stambolov, as a result of which he was imprisoned for three years in Chernata dzhamiya (the Black Mosque). In 1899, he entered with a revolutionary band into the region of Nevrokop. He was a voyvoda in the region in Prilep. In 1901, on the way to the village of Ulanci, in the Tikveš region, his band was found and defeated by a group of Turkish soldiers. Mirche Atsev died in this battle.

The Yugoslav partisan Mirče Acev was a nephew of Mirche Atsev, on his brothers' side.

References

• Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978.
• Кратка биография на Мирче Ацев

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Name	Atsev, Mirche
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Date of birth	1859
Place of birth	Oreovec, today Republic of Macedonia
Date of death	1901
Place of death	Ulanci, today Republic of Macedonia