Hristo Nikolov Makedonski or Hristo Makedonski ( bg, Христо Николов Македонски) (1835 in Gorni Todorak, today

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– July 5, 1916 in

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) was a

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and

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from Macedonia.

Biography

Hristo Makedonski was born in 1835 in the village of Gorni Todorak in the region of Macedonia (today Ano Theodoraki in the

Kroussa Kroussa or Kroussia ( el, Κρούσσα or Κρούσσια; Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavic: ''Krusha'', meaning "pear") is a former municipality in Kilkis regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municip ...

municipal unit, Kilkis regional unit,

), at that time part of the

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. He studied at the Greek school in his village and has been engaged with trade. After permanent

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repressions he became haiduk in the band of Stoimen voivode acting in Maleshevo. In 1862 he joined the First Bulgarian Legion of

Georgi Rakovski Georgi Stoykov Rakovski ( bg, Георги Стойков Раковски) (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an impo ...

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and fought with the

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in Belgrade. After the dissolution of the legion he arrived in

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. In 1864-1865 he led a small detachment, with which on the order of Rakovski made the round of western Bulgarian lands. Later, in the period 1867-1868 Makedonski took part in the Second Bulgarian Legion and after its disbanding in the spring of 1868, passed in Romania. In the same year he joined the band of Hadji Dimitar and Stefan Karadja. After the defeat of the band he escaped in

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and then again transferred to Romania. Hristo Makedonski participated in the preparation of

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and the

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uprisings in 1875 and 1876. In Serbian-Turkish War of 1876 he was a commander of a detachment of

volunteers and fought with Turkish troops in the region of

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and near

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. He died in

in 1916. Hristo Makedonski was a prototype of Makedonski - the character of the

Ivan Vazov Ivan Minchov Vazov ( bg, Иван Минчов Вазов; – 22 September 1921) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of ...

's short novel "Nemili-nedragi" ("Outcasts").

External links

Memoirs of Hristo Makedonski (1852-1877) (in Bulgarian)
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