Apostol Petkov
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Axioupoli
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, today in Paionia
Paionia (municipality)
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, Greece
Greece
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- August 2, 1911, Giannitsa
Giannitsa
Giannitsa is the largest town and a former municipality in Pella regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pella, of which it is a municipal unit...
, today Greece
Greece
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) was a Bulgarian
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revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia
Aegean Macedonia
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He is considered ethnic Macedonian
Macedonians (ethnic group)
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in the Republic of Macedonia
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.He was a leading komitaji in the bands of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees and took part in the battles against the Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
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authorities as well before the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising or simply the Ilinden Uprising of August 1903 |Macedonia]] affected most of the central and southwestern parts of the Monastir Vilayet receiving the support mainly of the local Bulgarian peasants and to some extent of the Aromanian population of the region...
as after it.
Later, he was one of the organizers of the military struggle against the Greeks
Greeks
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in Macedonia - still under Ottoman rule, but with both sides trying to establish their position in the area towards that rule's impending end. Petkov was killed, under unclear circumstances, in battle against Turk
Turkish people
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ish gendarmes on August 2, 1911.
See also
- IMORO
- Ilinden uprising
- OhranaOhranaOhrana ; were armed collaborationist detachments organized by the former Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization structures, composed of Bulgarian in Nazi-occupied Greek Macedonia during World War II and led by Bulgarian officers. from Macedonia...