Aleksandar Ivanov Andreev () (20 July 1883 – 1928), nicknamed Chapata, was a

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n revolutionary, a leader of an

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(IMARO) revolutionary band.

Biography

Aleksandar Andreev was born in 1883 in

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. After he finished high school in Sofia, he became a revolutionary in the armed band of Krastyo Asenov in Gevgeliya. Later, he was a member of the revolutionary bands of

Hristo Chernopeev Hristo Chernopeev () (c. 1868, Dermantsi – 6 November 1915, Krivolak) was a Bulgarian Army officer and member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia (region), Macedonia. He was among the leaders of the Bulgarian People's Macedonian-Adrianopl ...

and Ivan Naumov Alyabaka, with whom he operated in the regions of Kichevo and

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. In August 1907, he became a leader for the region of Veles. After the

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, in July 1908, he returned in Sofia, but the next year, when the IMARO was restored by

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and other eminent members of the organization, he took an active involvement in the revolutionary movement. In May 1911, he again became a leader of a revolutionary band in the region of Veles, and in 1912 he operated with the band of

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in the regions of

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and Enidzhe Vardar. He participated in the

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and the

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, in the guerrilla bands, organized and led by the IMARO. In 1918, he retired from revolutionary activity and settled in Sofia, where he died in 1928.„Алманах на българските национални движения след 1878 г.“, Академично издателство „Марин Дринов“, София, 2005.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andreev, Aleksandar 1883 births 1928 deaths Politicians from Sofia Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian people of World War I