Ivan Alev ( bg, Иван Алев) was a
Bulgarian
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doctor and a worker of the Bulgarian national liberation movement in Macedonia.
He was born in 1851 in the small south Macedonian town of Gumendzhe, in the
Ottoman Empire, now
Goumenissa,
Kilkis regional unit,
Greece. He finished medicine in
Athens and then returned to his native town, where he started to work as a doctor. He was one of the first doctors who worked in Bulgarian Exarchate School system in Ottoman Macedonia. Later he moved to Kukush (
Kilkis). Alev was a trusted man of
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) and had the responsibility to treat the sick and wounded members of the Organization. During the wars for Bulgarian national unification, Alev was a military division doctor in the Bulgarian army. After the
First World War he settled in
Nevrokop
Gotse Delchev ( bg, Гоце Делчев ), is a town in Gotse Delchev Municipality in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria.
In 1951, the town was renamed after the Bulgarian revolutionary hero Gotse Delchev. It had hitherto been called Nevrok ...
as a regional doctor. He died in 1919.
[Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. , с. 12.]
References
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1851 births
1919 deaths
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Macedonian Bulgarians
19th-century Bulgarian physicians
20th-century Bulgarian physicians
People from Goumenissa