Yordan Popyordanov
Yordan "Orce" Popyordanov (Bulgarian: Йордан (Орце) Пoпйopдaнoв; Macedonian: Јордан (Орце) Попјорданов) (1881 in Veles, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire – April 17, 1903 in Thessaloniki) was a Bulgarian[1] revolutionary and anarchist in Ottoman Macedonia. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in North Macedonia. After graduating from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki he joined the "Gemidzhii Circle", which in the spring of 1903 launched a campaign of Thessaloniki bombings of 1903 to draw world attention to the conditions in Macedonia under Ottoman rule. One of the buildings chosen was the French Ottoman Bank, which Orce was assigned to bomb through the underground passageway dug out weeks before by the Gemidzhii. Prior to the attacks, he visited Geneva to consult with Macedonian Supreme Committee leader Boris Sarafov about the attacks. He then received 10,000 Swiss francs from him.[2] Popyordanov died in the explosion on April 17. On the eve of the attacks in Thessaloniki, Popyordanov insured his life for BGN 100,000. Orce's goal was that after his death the amount will be paid and deposited in the Supreme Macedonian Committee treasury.[3]
References[]
- ^ Short biography from the booklet of St. Simeonov, The Thessaloniki Confession (Sofia, 1921).
- ^ Симеон Радев, Това, което видях от Балканската война. Народна култура, 1993, ISBN 9540400821, стр. 71.
- ^ Voenno-istoricheski sbornik, Volume 61, Issues 1-4, Bulgaria. Ministerstvo na otbrana, Generalen shtab, 1992, str. 191.
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