Hristo Batandzhiev ( bg, Христо Батанджиев, mk, Христо Батанџиев) (Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire, present day

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– 1913,

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) was a

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revolutionary,Freedom Or Death: The Life of Gotsé Delchev, Mercia MacDermott, Pluto Press, 1978, , p. 99. one of the founders of "The Committee for Obtaining the Political Rights Given to Macedonia by the Congress of Berlin" from which, later developed the

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known prior to 1902 as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC). He was a teacher in the

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school in

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and Secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city between 1888 and 1911. Batandzhiev also participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Ottoman Constit ...

from 1908, he was an active member of the ''

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'' Party. In July 1913, after the outbreak of the

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, Hristo Batandzhiev was arrested by the Greek authorities. He was about to be deported to the island of Trikeri in the

, together with many other Bulgarians. During the trip however, he was killed by the Greeks.

References

Sources

* Encyclopedia "Bulgaria", vol. 1, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1978 (in

): Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978). {{DEFAULTSORT:Batandzhiev, Hristo 1913 deaths Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian educators Macedonian Bulgarians People who died at sea 20th-century executions by Greece Bulgarian people imprisoned abroad Prisoners who died in Greek detention Bulgarian people of the Balkan Wars Balkan Wars casualties People executed by military occupation forces Deaths in the Aegean Sea People from Goumenissa 1869 births