Nikola Andreev (1879–1911), known as Alay Bey, was a
Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary of the
(IMARO). He was the leader of a revolutionary band in the
Kostur region and a participant in the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
Nikola Andreev was born in 1879 in the village of
Mokreni, then part of the
Ottoman Empire
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. After he finished the fifth grade of the Gymnasium in
Varna
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*Varna, Bulgaria, a city in Bulgaria
**Varna Province
**Varna Municipality
** Gulf of Varna
**Lake Varna
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* Varna (Šaba ...
, he studied for a while in the Military School in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
.
He left the military school and was attracted to the IMARO by
Lazar Poptraykov
Lazar Poptraykov (Bulgarian: Лазар Поптрайков; Macedonian: Лазар Поп-Трајков) (10 April 1878–October 1903) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji). He was also a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher and poet f ...
and
Toma Davidov
Toma Kostov Davidov (2 May 1863 - 15 March 1903) was a Bulgarian Army officer and participant in the Macedonian Revolutionary Movement, a vojvode of the Macedonian Supreme Committee, later becoming a commander in the Internal Macedonian Revolution ...
. He was shortly a freedom fighter in the revolutionary band of
Marko Lerinski
Marko Lerinski ( bg, Марко Лерински; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902) was the nickname of Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (Георги Иванов Гюров), also known as Georgi Geroyski, a Bulgarian military expert and revolutionary. A promi ...
during 1902. He was a recruiter in the region of Kostur and then became a leader of a revolutionary band himself.
At the beginning of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he didn't manage to take over
Klisura
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*Këlcyrë, a Byzantine town, now in Albania
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* Klisura (Višegrad), a village in the municipality of Vi ...
on his own, but later with the help of
Pando Klyashev,
Pando Sidov,
Vasil Chekalarov,
Manol Rozov and Marko Ivanov took over the towns of Klisura and
Neveska.
Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968, Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов
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After the uprising, until the Young Turk Revolution, he was a leader in the regions of Kostur and Kaylyari. Then he worked as a teacher in his village.
In 1911, Nikola Andreev was killed by one of his friends because of jealousy.
References
External links
Кратка биография на Никола Андреев
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1879 births
1911 deaths
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Bulgarian schoolteachers
Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Macedonian Bulgarians
People from Florina (regional unit)