Marko Boshnakov was a Bulgarian anarchist, participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement and a member of the Gemidziite. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.

Biography

Boshnakov was born in 1878 in Ohrid

Ohrid

Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has...

, Ottoman Macedonia. Later he became a member of Gemidziite while studying in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki

Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki

The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki was the first Bulgarian high school in Macedonia. One of the most influential Bulgarian educational centres in Macedonia and Southern Thrace, it was founded in autumn 1880 in Ottoman Thessaloniki and existed until...

 and participated in the Thesaloniki assassinations

Boatmen of Thessaloníki

The Boatmen of Thessaloníki or the Assassins of Salonica, were an anarchistic group active in the Ottoman Empire in the years around 1900. They all were graduates from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki, and launched a campaign of terror bombing, the so called "Thessaloniki bombings...

.

He rented a shop on the opposite side of the Ottoman Bank

Ottoman Bank

The Ottoman Bank was founded in 1856 in the Galata business section of İstanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as a joint venture between British interests, the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas of France, and the Ottoman government.The opening capital of the Bank consisted of 135,000 shares,...

 in Thessaloniki, since there are foundations he dug a tunnel

Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...

 to the bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...

 and he placed there dynamite. Later in that shop Jordan Popjordanov

Jordan Popjordanov

Jordan "Orce" Popjordanov was revolutionary anarchist in Ottoman Macedonia. He is considered Bulgarian in Bulgaria and Macedonian in Republic of Macedonia...

 burned the fuze and bombed the Ottoman Bank. He is one of four Gemidzhii (Pavel Shatev

Pavel Shatev

Pavel Potsev Shatev , , was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization , BMARC before 1902)...

, Georgi Bogdanov

Georgi Bogdanov

Georgi Bogdanov was a Bulgarian anarchist and revolutionary. Bogdanov is best remembered as a member of the Gemidziite group and a participant in the 1903 Thessaloniki terror campaign. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :...

 and Milan Arsov

Milan Arsov

Milan Arsov was a Bulgarian revolutionary - anarchist , member of Gemidziite and one of the assassins in Thessaloniki. In the Republic of Macedonia he is considered Macedonian.- Biography :...

) who were arrested and brought before a special court.

All four were sentenced to death but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Marko Boshnakov died on February 15, 1908 in the Libyan

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 province Fezzan

Fezzan

Fezzan is a south western region of modern Libya. It is largely desert but broken by mountains, uplands, and dry river valleys in the north, where oases enable ancient towns and villages to survive deep in the otherwise inhospitable Sahara.-Name:...

. His skull was brought by Satev and Bogdanov in Macedonia. Remains of Marko Boshnakov head ware placed in a decorative wooden catafalque and buried in the cemetery in the church Sv. Virgin Perivlepta.