Andon Hristov Zlatarev, under the name Ivan or Gorov Todorov Zlaterev, was a

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n revolutionary, an activist of the

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(IMARO).

Biography

Andon Zlatarev was born in 1872 in the city of

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-controlled. He received his primary education in his hometown and later went to recently freed

with his brother

Krastyu Zlatarev Krastyu Christ Zlatarev () was a Bulgarian officer, and commanded the 11th Macedonian Infantry Division throughout World War I. Biography Krastyu Zlatarev was born on 23 February 1864 in the city of Ohrid. His father was a priest from the Distr ...

, who was later an officer for the

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. He studied at an

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. After graduating, he worked as a telegraph and post clerk in

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, where he decided to join the IMRO. In 1896, at the suggestion of

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. ...

, Zlatarev, as a postal employee, stole BGN 20,000 from the cash register. The money was earmarked for the needs of the IMRO, but was not subsequently found. In 1899 he was sent by the Bitola District Committee to Cyril Parlichev in

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to help develop the revolutionary cause in the Voden region. He tried to organize a bombardment in Sarakinoi, but failed to do so. He became a teacher in Sarakinovo with the testimony of Dimitar Hristov from Valkoyanevo and under his name. He then worked as a teacher and organizer of IMRO in Sarakinovo for two years.

Death

During the Thessaloniki affair In the beginning of 1901, in order not to be arrested, the Thessaloniki affair became illegal, he fled to Thessaloniki and joined Ivan Savov's detachment. The whole detachment was killed in a battle with a

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army on March 26, 1902, near the village of

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References

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