Vasil Tomov Angelov ( bg, Васил Томов Ангелов; March 12, 1882 – August 23, 1953) was a

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n military officer and a revolutionary, a worker of the

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

(IMARO).

Biography

Vasil Tomov was born in the

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village of

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, in the

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. After he finished high school, he enrolled the Military school in

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, where he joined the IMARO. In January 1903 he finished the school and became an officer with the rank of a second lieutenant and served in the Ninth Infantry Plovdiv Regiment, but in the same year he left the military and the Emigrant Representative Body of the IMARO sent him as a military instructor in the revolutionary region of

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, where he joined 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 ...

. In August 1903, Angelov was a delegate at the Ser region congress that took place in Livadkata, near the village of

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, where the action plan for the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising was developed. The congress appointed Angelov as leader of a band in the region of Demir Hisar. He and his band were given the task to investigate the possibilities to detonate the railroad bridge near Demir Hisar and the possibilities to seize the town itself. In the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he operated in the region of Demir Hisar together with Iliya Karchovaliyata and Lyubomir Stoenchev, but they did not manage to accomplish the plan to seize the town. When the uprising ended, Angelov and his revolutionary band went back to

, where he joined again the Ninth regiment, but he continued to complete tasks given to him by the IMARO. He participated in the wars for Bulgarian national liberation in the period 1912–1918. After 1919 he graduated medicine in Sofia and worked as a doctor in

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, where he died in 1953.Биографични данни от библиотека на ВМРО-София
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Angelov, Vasil 1882 births 1953 deaths People from Smolyan Province Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian military personnel of World War I 20th-century Bulgarian physicians