- Apostol Petkov
Apostol Petkov or "the Sun of Enije Vardar" (May 6, 1869, Boymitsa , today
Greece -August 2 ,1911 ,Giannitsa , todayGreece ) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement inAegean Macedonia [ [http://www.promacedonia.org/obm2/16a.html Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)] ] [ [http://www.promacedonia.org/as/as_4.html Алберт Сониксен. „Изповедта на един македонски четник“.] ] [ [http://www.promacedonia.org/obm2/16b.html Христо Силянов. Борбите към Енидженското езеро, ч.2 (из „Освободителните борби на Македония“, т.ІІ)] ]He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the
Republic of Macedonia .He was a leading "komitaji " in the bands of theBulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees and took part in the battles against the Ottoman authorities as well before theIlinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising as after it. [ [http://www.promacedonia.com/ilpr1968/ilpr1968_6.html Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов. „Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968“, Издателство на Националния съвет на Отечествения фронт, София, 1968 г., стр.142-143.] ]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. [Πηνελόπη Δέλτα. "Στα μυστικά του Βάλτου", 1937.] Petkov was killed, under unclear circumstances, in battle against Turkish gendarmes onAugust 2 ,1911 . [Мария Атанасова. Ениджевардарското слънце Апостол Петков. В: „Български войводи“, София, 1985, стр.191.]Notes
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*Ilinden uprising
*Ohrana
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