Petar Atsev ( bg, Петър Ацев) was a

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revolutionary, a voyvoda of the

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(IMARO) for the region of

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Biography

Petar Atsev was born in 1877 in the village of Oreovec, then part of the Manastir Vilayet of the

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. From 1897 to 1901, he worked as a teacher in Prilep and

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as well as in some villages in Macedonia. Together with his brothers Mirche and

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, he joined the revolutionary activity of the IMARO. In 1901, Krastyu Germov, later known as Shakir voyvoda, became a member of his revolutionary band. At the beginning of 1902, Petar also became a freedom fighter, and in May 1902, he became a regional voyvoda for the Prilep region. Atanas Ivanov was then a member of his band. Petar Atsev was a representative of the Prilep revolutionary region at the Congress of

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, where he was one of the principal antagonists to the idea of organizing and carrying out the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. To explain his opposition to the Uprising, he emphasized the lack of armaments and ammunition in his revolutionary region. Petar Atsev, together with Georgi Pophristov and

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 poe ...

, was chosen a reserve member of the Uprising Staff, which was led by

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, Atanas Lozanchev and

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. After the end of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Petar was chosen as an illegal member of the regional committee together with Pavel Hristov and Pando Klyashev. Milan Matov, Petar Neshev and Mihail Rakadzhiev were the legal members of this committee. Petar Atsev fought a number of battles against Turkish military units and

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n and

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bands in Macedonia. On 28 June 1904 the revolutionary bands of Petar Atsev and Nikola Karandzhulov, had a battle against a Turkish military unit near "Kyuleto", a place in the vicinity of the village of Selce, in which Nikola Karandzhulov was killed. In 1905, Trayko Kralya, Petar Atsev and Gyore Spirkov, nicknamed Lenishtanets, and Krastyo Germov had a meeting with Gligor Sokolovich, who used false documents to persuade them to let him enter Macedonia. At the Congress of

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in 1906, Petar Atsev was chosen an additional member of the Central Committee of the IMARO, together with Petko Penchev, Pavel Hristov, Efrem Chuchkov, Argir Manasiev and Stamat Ikonomov.100 години от Кюстендилския конгрес на ВМОРО (1908 г.), Слави Славов
/ref> In 1907, he participated in the Battle of "Nozhot" (the Knife), together with the voyvodas

Tane Nikolov Tane Nikolov ( bg, Тане Николов) (9 March 1873 – 19 January 1947) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, Thrace and Pomoravlje. He was among the leading members of the Secret Macedonia ...

Ivan Naumov Ivan Naumov ( bg, Иван Наумов), nicknamed Alyabaka or Alyabako was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). Biography Ivan Naumov was born in the village of Oraovec ...

, Mihail Chakov, Hristo Tsvetkov and Mircho Naydov. After the

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in 1908, he was no longer an illegal freedom fighter and settled in Prilep. Two years later, he was arrested and for 15 months he was imprisoned in different prisons in Macedonia and

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. He was released in the middle of 1911 and settled in Plovdiv,

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. He participated as a volunteer in the Balkan Wars, and also later in the

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. Petar Atsev was a member of the Ilinden Organization. He died in 1939 in Plovdiv.

References

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