Dimitar Andonov was a

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n officer and revolutionary, a leader of an

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(IMARO) revolutionary band for the

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region.

Biography

Dimitar Andonov was born in 1871 in

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, then part of the

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. He finished a military school for sergeants and served in the 12-th Infantry Balkan Battalion of the

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. On March 5, 1903, Dimitar Andonov, together with Nikola Valchev and Nestor Baykov, left the army. In

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, they connected with the foreign representation body of the revolutionary organization IMARO and in

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they joined the Prilep revolutionary band of Konstantin Kondov. Their fellow-townsman Georgi Staynov was already a member of this revolutionary band. Part of Kostantin Kondov's revolutionary band entered into an ambush near the village of Toplica, as a result of which seven freedom fighters and the leader Nikola Bozhkov were killed. Dimitar Andonov and Nestor Baykov reorganized the band and managed to escape the ambush. Later, this section joined the revolutionary band of Petar Atsev. During the preparations of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Dimitar Andonov was appointed head of the Prekoridski revolutionary region. He was responsible for the military training of the freedom fighters in this region. During the uprising, Dimitar Andonov and Nestor Baykov fought two battles with the

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near

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and

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and they organized the logistics for the transport of gunpowder and weaponry from

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to Prilep. They participated in the action led by Petar Atsev, in the village of

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, that was an unsuccessful attempt to take over the Ottoman garrison. They had other battles at the Nidže Mountain and the Farish Inns, in which they succeeded in disrupting the communication on the road between Prilep,

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and Krivolak.

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refused their suggestion to attack the Ottoman garrisons in the town of Prilep. At the end of the uprising, Dimitar Andonov returned in

and again joined the military and served in his battalion. He participated in the

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. During the

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, on March 1, 1917, he was promoted to the rank of captain. On March 17, he died in the battle near Chervenata Stena (The Red Wall) against

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and

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battalions. On the occasion of his death, Petar Atsev wrote:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andonov, Dimitar 1871 births 1917 deaths People from Stara Zagora Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Bulgarian military personnel of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian military personnel of World War I Bulgarian military personnel killed in World War I