Stamat Ikonomov ( bg, Стамат Икономов) was a

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revolutionary, member of the

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

(IMRO) and

military officer An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant officer. However, absent context ...

.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893 – 1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 64.

Biography

Ikonomov was born in

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, then in Ottoman Empire, where he first studied. He then graduated from high school in

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. In 1883 he joined the Military School in Sofia. During the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), Ikonomov was a volunteer. He graduated from the Military school in 1887 and served for 15 years as an officer in the Bulgarian Army and reached the rank of captain. In 1901 he was fired from office. On the eve of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Ikonomov was involved in the activities of the

IMRO The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

. He was a delegate is at the Petrova Niva Congress. Ikonomov teach military the rural militias. Despite his officers' rank, Ikonomov did not claim any post. During the revolt, he was head of a detachment of 100 insurgents operating in Bunarhisar. After the uprising, in 1906 he entered again with a detachment in Ottoman Thrace, but due to illness he returned to Bulgaria. He was elected a delegate of the Kyustendil Congress of IMRO from 1908, but failed to attend. After the

Young Turk Revolution The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Ottoman Constit ...

, on December 31, 1908, a congress of the Edirne Revolutionary District was held in Edirne, where Stamat Ikonomov was presented as a delegate and included in the regional leadership. Ikonomov died in poverty in 1912 in Sofia. In the birth house of Ikonomov in

is today an Ethnographic Museum.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ikonomov, Stamat Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Thracian Bulgarians Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery 1866 births 1912 deaths