Kosta Atanasov Manushkin () was a Bulgarian teacher and a revolutionary, a worker of the

Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization 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 ...

(IMARO). Kosta Atanasov was born in 1870 in the village of

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, then part of the

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. In 1888 he finished the Bulgarian school in

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, and in 1894 he graduated from the Bulgarian Pedagogical School in

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. Then he returned in his village and became a teacher. Later, he also worked as a teacher in

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and

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. He entered the IMARO and became a president of the Bachevo revolutionary committee. In 1901 he became a freedom fighter and joined the revolutionary band of

Yane Sandanski Yane Ivanov Sandanski (, ; Originally spelled in Reforms of Bulgarian orthography, older Bulgarian orthography as (Yane Ivanov Sandanski); 18 May 1872 – 22 April 1915) was a Macedonian Bulgarians, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader ...

. During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he was a voyvoda (leader) of a revolutionary band and after he got injured in a battle near Bachevo he went to

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for medical treatment. In 1904, he returned in

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and participated in the reconstruction of the revolutionary organization. From 1904 to 1912 he worked as a teacher in the villages of

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, Eleshnitsa,

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, Bansko and Bachevo. After the

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in 1908, he became a member of the

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. He participated in the detachment of Yane Sandanski on his way to

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to support the Young Turks. He was killed by political opponents in 1912.Енциклопедия Пирински край, том 1, Благоевград, 1995.

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