Nikola Andreev (1879–1911), known as Alay Bey, was a
Bulgarian Army
The Bulgarian Army (), also called Bulgarian Armed Forces, is the military of Bulgaria. The commander-in-chief is the president of Bulgaria. The Ministry of Defense is responsible for political leadership, while overall military command is in ...
officer and revolutionary of the
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He was the leader of a revolutionary band in the
Kostur region and a participant in the
Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.
Nikola Andreev was born in 1879 in the village of
Mokreni, then part of the
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...
. After he finished the fifth grade of the Gymnasium in
Varna, he studied for a while in the Military School in
Sofia
Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...
.
He left the military school and was attracted to the IMARO by
Lazar Poptraykov and
Toma Davidov. He was shortly a freedom fighter in the revolutionary band of
Marko Lerinski during 1902. He was a recruiter in the region of Kostur and then became a leader of a revolutionary band himself.
At the beginning of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he didn't manage to take over
Klisura on his own, but later with the help of
Pando Klyashev,
Pando Sidov,
Vasil Chekalarov,
Manol Rozov and Marko Ivanov took over the towns of Klisura and
Neveska.
Илинденско-Преображенското въстание 1903—1968, Дино Кьосев и Ламби Данаилов
/ref>
After the uprising, until the Young Turk Revolution
The Young Turk Revolution (July 1908; ) was a constitutionalist revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress, an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II ...
, he was a leader in the regions of Kostur and Kaylyari. Then he worked as a teacher in his village.
In 1911, Nikola Andreev was killed by one of his friends because of jealousy.
References
External links
Кратка биография на Никола Андреев
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andreev, Nikola
1879 births
1911 deaths
Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
Bulgarian schoolteachers
Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
Bulgarian revolutionaries
Macedonian Bulgarians
People from Florina (regional unit)