Nikola Hristov Aslanov ( bg, Никола Христов Асланов) was a
Bulgarian
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revolutionary, a worker of the
(IMARO).
Nikola Aslanov was born in 1875 in
Kırk Kilise, (Lozengrad)
East Thrace, today located in
Turkey
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and known as Kirklareli. He worked as a merchant. In 1896, he became a member of the IMARO. In 1900 he was chosen as a member of the regional revolutionary committee in Lozengrad. In the same year, he was arrested by the Ottomans and imprisoned by the so-called Keremidchioglu Affair. Later Aslanov was tortured. He was sentenced to ten years in prison and was exiled to the
Payas Kale fortress in
Anatolia
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, where he died in 1905.
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1875 births
1905 deaths
People from Kırklareli
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Bulgarians from Eastern Thrace
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Thracian Bulgarians
Bulgarian people imprisoned abroad
Prisoners who died in Ottoman detention
Bulgarian people who died in prison custody
19th-century Bulgarian people
19th-century businesspeople from the Ottoman Empire