Metodi Aleksiev Yanushev ( bg, Методи Алексиев Янушев) was a

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revolutionary, a member of the

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(IMARO) and the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Biography

Metodi Aleksiev Yanushev was born in 1887 in Köprülü (now known as Veles), in the Kosovo Vilayet of the

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(present-day

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). He studied 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 became a member of the IMARO. He was wanted by the authorities and in 1906 he moved to

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to study in the Bulgarian Pedagogical School. He became an Komitadji and entered the revolutionary band of

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, and later he was in the headquarters of Yane Sandanski's revolutionary band. In 1908, after the Young Turk Revolution, he became a teacher. In 1912, after the beginning of the

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, he was a leader of a revolutionary band that helped the actions of the Bulgarian army in the regions of Razlog and

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. In 1913 he entered the

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. During the

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he served in the 29th Infantry Regiment and participated in the

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in 1918. From 1920 to 1923 he had been a member of the Regional committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in

. He commanded a rebel band during the September Uprising. He was taken hostage by the band of Aleko Vasilev and later released. He continued with communist activity and was killed in September 1924 in the vicinity of the village of Pokrovnik.

References

* Енциклопедия „Пирински край“. Том 1, Благоевград, 1995. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aleksiev, Metodi 1887 births 1924 deaths People from Veles, North Macedonia People from Kosovo vilayet Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian military personnel of World War I Bulgarian schoolteachers Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki alumni Assassinated Bulgarian people People assassinated in the 20th century