Petar Dimitrov Angelov ( bg, Петър Димитров Ангелов) was a
Bulgarian military officer and a revolutionary, a member of the
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).
Petar Angelov was born in 1878 in
Haskovo, in today’s
Bulgaria, then part of the
Ottoman Empire. After he finished a military academy he served as a sergeant in the 24-th infantry regiment. In 1900 he joined the revolutionary organization IMARO, and in 1903 he became a military instructor in the revolutionary band of
Mihail Gerdzhikov
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Mihail Gerdzhikov ( bg, Михаил Герджиков; 1877–1947) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and anarchist.
Biography
He was born in Plovdiv, then in the Ottoman Empire, in 1877. He studied at the French College in Plovdiv, where ...
in
Odrin Thrace.
Petar Angelov was a delegate of the congress held at
Petrova Niva
Petrova Niva ( bg, Петрова нива, "Peter's field") is a historic area in the Strandzha mountains of southeastern Bulgaria where, between 11 and 13 July 1903, a group of Bulgarian Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization ...
on July 11, 1903, and was appointed leader of the Pirgopol revolutionary region in
Strandzha
Strandzha ( bg, Странджа, also transliterated as ''Strandja'', ; tr, Istranca , or ) is a mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey. It is in the southeastern part of the Balkans between the plains of T ...
. During the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he fought battles in
Malko Tarnovo and defeated the Turkish troops in the villages of
Madzhura,
Kurfokoliba and
Ineada.
After the end of the uprising, he went back to Bulgaria and from June 14, 1904, he became a leader in the region of
Kriva Palanka. His revolutionary band had 25 members: 14 freedom fighters were born in the liberated parts of Bulgaria,
Rudolf Goliyat came from
Austria and
Anton Hoshek was a
Czech. On January 2, 1905, he participated at the Congress of
Skopje in the village of
Knezhevo.
At the second Congress of the Skopje Revolutionary Region during November 1906, he became an illegal member of the Skopje regional revolutionary committee.
Petar Angelov participated in the
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...
in the revolutionary band of
Yane Sandanski
Yane Ivanov Sandanski (, ) (originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography ) (18 May 1872 – 22 April 1915), was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary.Per Julian Allan Brooks' thesis the term ‘Macedo-Bulgarian’ refers to the Exarchist po ...
, and later in the third company of the fifth Odrin Battalion of the
Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps in the
Bulgarian Army.
[„Македоно-одринското опълчение 1912-1913 г. Личен състав“, Главно управление на архивите, 2006, стр. 32.] In 1913, he was promoted to the rank of an officer for his courage. He also participated in the
First World War, after which he retired.
He was killed in 1923 in Sofia by activists of the rivaling right-wing IMRO faction.
References
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1878 births
1926 deaths
People from Haskovo
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Bulgarian military personnel of World War I
Thracian Bulgarians