Manush Georgiev (

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: Мануш Георгиев), better known as Manush Voivoda ( bg, Мануш Войвода) was a

revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member 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� ...

. He graduated from the Bulgarian schools in

Strumitsa Strumica ( mk, Струмица, ) is the largest city2002 census results
in English and Macedon ...

and

Serres Sérres ( el, Σέρρες ) is a city in Macedonia, Greece, capital of the Serres regional unit and second largest city in the region of Central Macedonia, after Thessaloniki. Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Nort ...

, and was later appointed as a teacher in the villages of Barbarevo, Robovo, Borievo and Stinik. Pursued by the Ottoman authorities as a revolutionary, in 1903 Manush Georgiev became illegal and joined the band of

Hristo Chernopeev Hristo Chernopeev ( bg, Христо Чернопеев) (1868, Dermantsi – 6 November 1915, Krivolak) was a Bulgarian Army officer and member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the Bulgarian People's Maced ...

, and then he was the secretary of the voivode Dimitar Popstamatov. From 1904 he was appointed titular district voivode in the

Petrich Petrich ( bg, Петрич ) is a town in Blagoevgrad Province in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Sandanski–Petrich Valley at the foot of the Belasica Mountains in the Strumeshnitsa Valley. According to the 2021 census, the town has 26,778 ...

region. Contributes to the strengthening of the local revolutionary committees, protects the Bulgarian population.He grew up in VMORO and from 1907 he was elected assistant to the Strumica district voivode. Georgiev was killed in a shootout with the

Ottoman army The military of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. Army The military of the Ottoman Empire can be divided in five main periods. The foundation era covers the ...

and

Bashi-bazouk A bashi-bazouk ( ota, باشی بوزوق , , , roughly "leaderless" or "disorderly") was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman army, raised in times of war. The army chiefly recruited Albanians and Circassians as bashi-bazouks, but recruits ...

near the village of Dolna Ribnitsa in 1908.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 31.

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1881 births 1908 deaths Bulgarian revolutionaries Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian educators Macedonian Bulgarians {{Bulgaria-bio-stub