Yordan "Orce" Popyordanov ( bg, Йордан (Орце) Пoпйopдaнoв; mk, Јордан (Орце) Поп Јорданов; 1881 – April 17, 1903) was a

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revolutionary and

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in Ottoman Macedonia.

Biography

After graduating from the

Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki ( bg, Солунска българска мъжка гимназия „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, ''Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i ...

he joined the "''Gemidzhii Circle''", which in the spring of 1903 launched a campaign of

Thessaloniki bombings of 1903 The Boatmen of Thessaloniki ( bg, Гемиджиите; mk, Гемиџиите) or the Assassins of Salonica, was a Bulgarian anarchist group, active in the Ottoman Empire in the years between 1898 and 1903. The members of the Group were predo ...

to draw world attention to the conditions in Macedonia under Ottoman rule. One of the buildings chosen was the French Ottoman Bank, which Orce was assigned to bomb through the underground passageway dug out weeks before by the Gemidzhii. Prior to the attacks, he visited Geneva to consult with Macedonian Supreme Committee leader

Boris Sarafov Boris Petrov Sarafov (Bulgarian and mk, Борис Петров Сарафов) (12 June 1872 in Libyahovo, Salonica Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, present-day Bulgaria – 28 November 1907 in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian Army officer and r ...

about the attacks. He then received 10,000

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from him. Popyordanov died in the explosion on April 17. On the eve of the attacks in Thessaloniki, Popyordanov insured his life for BGN 100,000. Orce's goal was that after his death the amount will be paid and deposited in the

Supreme Macedonian Committee Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), ( bg, Върховен македоно - одрински комитет, (ВМОК)), also known as Supreme Macedonian Committee was a Bulgarian paramilitary and political organization, active i ...

treasury.Voenno-istoricheski sbornik, Volume 61, Issues 1-4, Bulgaria. Ministerstvo na otbrana, Generalen shtab, 1992, str. 191.

References

1881 births 1903 deaths Anarchist assassins People from Kosovo vilayet Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian assassins Bulgarian anarchists Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki alumni Bulgarian nationalist assassins {{Anarchist-stub