Mile Popyordanov ( Bulgarian: Миле Попйорданов

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...

: Миле Поп Јорданов) (1877-1901), born Milan Popyordanov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). According to the post-World War II Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic

Biography

Milan Popyordanov was born in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia) in 1877. His younger brother,

Yordan Popyordanov 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 ...

, was one of the ''Gemidzhii'' who launched the

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 ...

. Mile Popyordanov studied at the Bulgarian men's high school in the town of

Bitola Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki ...

and later at the Constantinople Bulgarian Theological Seminary, before becoming an active member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Afterwards he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in his native area. As an active member of the IMARO, he later joined the regional detachment operating around Radovis. From the end of 1900 Gotse Delchev appointed Milan Popyordanov as leader of that detachment. At the beginning of March 1901 he arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria by his brother. There Popyordanov persuaded the Bulgarian poet

Peyo Yavorov Peyo Yavorov ( bg, Пейо (Кр.) Яворов; born Peyo Totev Kracholov, Пейо Тотев Крачолов; 13 January 1878 – 29 October 1914) was a Bulgarian Symbolist poet. He was considered to be one of the finest poetic talents in th ...

to leave for Macedonia as a guerrilla. As a sign of friendship when leaving, Yavorov presented him with his official suit. In September, on his return to Veles, he was ambushed and surrounded by Ottoman soldiers. Then he was engaged in a shootout with them. In order not to be caught alive, he killed himself.В Македония под робство: солунското съзаклятие (1903 г.) : подготовка и изпълнение, Библиотека Български мемоари, Автор Павел Шатев, издател Български писател, 1968 г. стр. 224. Afterwards the Turkish soldiers disfigured his face beyond recognition. He was identified by the suit given to him by Yavorov. There is a folk song about Popyordanov ('Болен ми лежи Миле Попйорданов').

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pop Yordanov, Mile 1877 births 1901 deaths People from Veles, North Macedonia People from Kosovo vilayet Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Macedonian Bulgarians 1901 suicides Suicides by firearm in North Macedonia Suicides in the Ottoman Empire