Dzole Stoychev Gergev ( bg, Дзоле Стойчев Гергев and mk, Ѕоле Стојчев Гергев) (1867 – 1909) also known as Atesh Pasha, was a
Macedonian Bulgarian
Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians ( bg, македонци or македонски българи), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of eth ...
revolutionary and freedom fighter, member of the
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO)
Biography
He was born in
Banitsa, then in the
Ottoman Empire. After entering
IMRO, his first job was that of a courier and terrorists. He became
chetnik
The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...
with
Tane Stoychev from
Gornichevo, and in 1903 became the leader of his own regiment in Lerin (
Florina). In the summer of 1903 he participated in the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising.
After the rebellion he became a district leader. After the
Young Turk Revolution he joined the local police.
He was killed in Florina in 1909 by the
Turks, after a
Greek provocation.
[Vŭorŭzhenata borba na VMORO v Makedonia i Odrinsko, 1904-1912, Todor Petrov, Voenno izdatelstvo, 1991, str. 54.]
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Dzole Stojchev
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Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Macedonian Bulgarians
1867 births
1909 deaths
People from Meliti (municipal unit)
Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire