Ivan Todorov Angov was a

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teacher and a revolutionary, a worker of the

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(IMARO). Ivan Angov was born in

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in 1882. After he finished the Bulgarian Pedagogical School in

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in 1900, he founded a school in the village of

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in which he worked as a teacher. He was imprisoned because he got into a conflict with the authorities of the Constantinople Patriarchate. His father and brother were already members of the IMARO when he joined the revolutionary organization in 1901. He was appointed a courier by the organization. From 1905 to 1908 he was imprisoned in Edikule, a prison in

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. In October 1912 he became a member of the regional management body of the liberated Petrich and in 1914 he became a secretary and tax-collector of the Petrich municipality. He was elected a member of the city’s municipality council a number of times. In 1924, Angov was among the founders of the tobacco cooperation “Fortress of Samoil”, together with Iliya Bizhev and others. In 1925 he participated in the foundation of the water syndicate “Strumeshnitsa”. After 1925, he worked as a teacher in Dolene and

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. Angov died in

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in 1937.

References

* Енциклопедия Пирински край, том 1, Благоевград, 1995. {{DEFAULTSORT:Angov, Ivan 1882 births 1937 deaths People from Petrich Bulgarian educators Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Bulgarian revolutionaries Macedonian Bulgarians