Marko Boshnakov ( bg, Марко Бошнаков; 1878 – 1908) was a

Bulgarian Bulgarian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria * Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group * Bulgarian language, a Slavic language * Bulgarian alphabet * A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria * Bul ...

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

, participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement and a member of the Gemidziite.

Biography

Boshnakov was born in 1878 in

Ohrid Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the List of cities in North Macedonia, eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording ...

, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Macedonia. Later he became a member of Gemidziite while studying in 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 ...

and participated in the Thessaloniki assassinations. He rented a shop on the opposite side of the

Ottoman Bank The Ottoman Bank ( tr, Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (french: Banque Impériale Ottomane, ota, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank ...

in Thessaloniki, since there are foundations he dug a

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to the

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and he placed there dynamite. Later in that shop

Jordan Popjordanov Yordan "Orce" Popyordanov ( bg, Йордан (Орце) Пoпйopдaнoв; mk, Јордан (Орце) Поп Јорданов; 1881 – April 17, 1903) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and anarchist in Ottoman Macedonia. Biography After gra ...

burned the fuze and bombed the Ottoman Bank. He is one of four Gemidzhii (

Pavel Shatev Pavel Potsev Shatev ( Bulgarian and mk, Павел Поцев Шатев) (July 15, 1882 – January 30, 1951) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization ...

, Georgi Bogdanov and Milan Arsov) who were arrested and brought before a special court. All four were sentenced to death but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Marko Boshnakov died on February 15, 1908, in the

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n province

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.Мариан Гяурски, „Анархизмът в македоно-одринското националнореволюционно движение: Солунските атентатори“
His skull was brought by Satev and Bogdanov in Macedonia. Remains of Marko Boshnakov head ware placed in a decorative wooden catafalque and buried in the cemetery in the church Sv. Virgin Perivlepta.

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