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Ivan Hadzhinikolov (, ; December 24, 1861 – July 9, 1934) was a

Macedonian Bulgarian Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians (), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or originating from the region of Ma ...

revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in

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and Adrianople vilayet. He was among the founders of the

Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees In the earliest dated samples of statutes and regulations of the clandestine Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) discovered so far, it is called Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Committees (BMARC)., T ...

(IMARO) in October 1893 (the organization was renamed several times afterwards). He is considered a

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by the

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Biography

Ivan Hadzhinikolov was born in Kukush in 1861. He received elementary and secondary education in Kukush,

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and

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. Then Hadzhinikolov graduated higher education at commerce in

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. After that he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in

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, Kukush and

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. From 1888 to 1892 he taught arithmetic and accounting at the

Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki (, ''Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodiy“'') was the first Bulgarian language, Bulgarian high school in Macedonia (region), Macedonia. One of th ...

. In July 1892, he met with Kosta Shahov and

Gotse Delchev Georgi Nikolov Delchev (; ; 4 February 1872 – 4 May 1903), known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (''Гоце Делчев''),Originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography as ''Гоце Дѣлчевъ''. - Гоце Дѣлчевъ. ...

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and discussed with them his idea of founding a revolutionary organization in Ottoman Macedonia. The

IMARO The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, it initia ...

was founded in his house in 1893. According to him, one of the main reasons for creating the Organization was the aggressive Serbian propaganda in Macedonia. Hadzhinikolov opened a bookstore in Thessaloniki in 1893 after leaving the Bulgarian high school. After supposing to be arrested in 1901, he handed over the IMARO archives to Ivan Garvanov, who later became the new leader of the Organization. Subsequently he was arrested by the Ottomans and sent into exile in

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. After amnesty in 1903 Hadzhinikolov went to

and was engaged in booktrade and commerce. During the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), Ivan Hadzinikolov was a volunteer in the

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in the Bulgarian army. After the First World War, he became a prominent figure in the Macedonian immigration to Bulgaria. After a heavy illness with disordered nerves he commitеd suicide in 1934 in Sofia. His grandson is the famous Bulgarian sculptor Alexandar Dyakov (1932 - 2018).Ива Йолова (Преса); Скулпторът Александър Дяков: Имам послание за извънземните
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hadzhinikolov, Ivan 1869 births 1934 deaths People from Kilkis Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Bulgarian educators Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian people imprisoned abroad Recipients of Ottoman royal pardons Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Exiles from the Ottoman Empire 1934 suicides Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire