Hristo Atanasov was a
Bulgarian
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* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
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revolutionary, a worker of the
(IMARO).
Biography
Hristo Atanasov was born in the village of
Dikanya,
Radomir region, in 1877. After he finished elementary school, he worked in
Sofia
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, where he became a member of the revolutionary organization IMARO. In 1904, he went to the region of
Veles as a member of the revolutionary band of
Ivan Naumov Alyabaka. He was a freedom fighter until the end of 1904, and later at the beginning of 1907, he became a leader for the
Bitola
Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki ...
revolutionary region. He was active in the agricultural villages of
Pelagonia
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. In December 1907, he was captured, sentenced to death and hanged in March 1908 in Bitola.
References
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1877 births
1908 deaths
People from Pernik Province
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Executed revolutionaries
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Executed Bulgarian people
People executed by the Ottoman Empire by hanging
20th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire