Yordan Piperkata ( bg, Йордан Пиперката, mk, Јордан Пиперката; 1870–1903) originally born as Yordan Piperkov ( bg, Йордан Пиперков; mk, Јордан Пиперков), was a revolutionary from
Ottoman Macedonia in the early 20th century, member of the
Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and later a 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 ...
(
first name disputed).
Life
He was born in
Kozica, Ottoman Empire (today in
Kičevo Municipality
Kičevo Municipality ( mk, Кичево; sq, Kërçovë) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. The municipal seat is the city of Kičevo. Kičevo Municipality is located in the Southwestern Statistical Region.
Geography
The ...
,
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...
) to a poor family. He could not graduate at the Bulgarian secondary school in Bitola, because his family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he met insurgents from the
Kresna-Razlog Uprising and other
voivode
Voivode (, also spelled ''voievod'', ''voevod'', ''voivoda'', ''vojvoda'' or ''wojewoda'') is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. It primarily referred to the me ...
s. This sparked in him an interest for the Macedonian liberation movement. Later Piperkata was active in the
Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action in 1895
The Supreme Macedonian Committee chetas' action in 1895 was an armed expedition of several chetas from Bulgaria into the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace in the period of June-August 1895. Its aim was to provoke a general uprising in the ar ...
in Ottoman Macedonia. He joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in 1897. The assassination of a Turkish bey, in which he also participated, forced him to leave Ottoman Macedonia and return to Bulgaria. With the detachment of Mirche Atsev he returned to Macedonia in June 1900, after which he formed his own detachment in the Krushevo region. Afterwards he several times entered Macedonia from Bulgaria with different
chetas. During the Ilinden uprising, he attacked the Albanian village of
Pribilci with 900 insurgents, then fought near
Kicevo. After the burning of the village of Cer by the Ottomans, Piperkata and three other rebels went to investigate the damages in the burned village, where Piperkata was killed by Turks, who had organized an ambush there. After the death of Yordan, his assistant, the
Bulgarian Army
The Bulgarian Land Forces ( bg, Сухопътни войски на България, Sukhopŭtni voĭski na Bŭlgariya, lit=Ground Forces of Bulgaria) are the ground warfare branch of the Bulgarian Armed Forces. The Land Forces were established ...
officer
Dimitar Dechev, took his place. Dechev took avenge on the Turks for Yordan's murder.
[Стоянка Георгиева, "Борис Сарафов: Със смъртта на Дечев губя дясната си ръка!" Как славният сливенски войвода се бори и изгоря в пламъците на Илинденското въстание, в-к "Дума", 12 Юли 2019, брой: 132.]
References
Sources
* "Революционната дейность въ Демирхисаръ (битолско) по спомени на Алексо Стефановъ Демирхисарски войвода)", Съобщава Боянъ Мирчев, София—Печатница П.Глушковъ — 193
стр.27-29* "Илюстрация Илинден", година І, брой 3, стр
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1870 births
1903 deaths
Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire