Milan Arsov was a Bulgarian revolutionary - anarchist , member of Gemidziite and one of the assassins in Thessaloniki

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...

. In the Republic of Macedonia he is considered Macedonian.

Biography

Milan Arsov was born in Oraovec, then within the Ottoman Empire. He studied in the Bulgarian gymnasium in Tessaloniki "Sts. Cyril and Methodius"

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 Bitola Bulgarian Exarchate gymnasium but did not graduate it.

In Thessaloniki he joined the anarchist brotherhood, called the Gemidzii and becames part of it. As such he participated in assassinations Salonika in 1903. On April 15, 1903 Dimitar Mechev, Ilija Trachkov and Milan Arsov detonated the railway line Thessaloniki - Istanbul, the blast damaged several cars and the locomotive, but the passengers ware not hurt. The next day Arsov threw a bomb in front of the hotel "Alhambra".
Arsov was one of four survivors from the Gemidzhii, who were put on trial from a military court. Along with 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 Marko Boshnakov

Marko Boshnakov

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 :...

 they were sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he along with other assassins had been sent to Fezzan

Fezzan

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 in Sahara

Sahara

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He died of tuberculosis on July 8, 1908 in Murzuk

Murzuk

Murzuk is an oasis town and the capital of the Murzuq District in the Fezzan region of southwest Libya. Murzuk lies on the northern edge of the Murzuq Desert, a desert of ergs or great sand dunes, and section of the Sahara Desert.-History:...

, but his skull was returned to Macedonia by Pavel Bogdanov and Georgi Satev.