Aleksandar Protogerov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bulgarian revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Ohrid, Southwestern Statistical Region, North Macedonia
About Aleksandar Protogerov
- Alexandar Protogerov (Bulgarian: ?????????? ??????????) (28 February 1867, Ohrid – 7 July 1928, Sofia) was a Bulgarian general, politician and revolutionary, as well as a member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia, Thrace and Pomoravlje.
- He was among the leaders of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and later joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
- He was a volunteer in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885.
- Protogerov took part in the Gorna Djumaya uprising in 1902 and in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. In the Balkan Wars, Protogerov was one of the organizers of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps and Assistant Commander of this military unit.
- During the First World War, he commanded the Third Infantry Brigade of 11th Macedonian division and then became commander of the Bulgarian troops in the Pomoravlje region of Serbia.
- There he suppressed the Toplica Uprising, commanding an army that committed a large number of war crimes, including cruel murders of thousands of women, children and the elderly.
- Later, as commandant of Sofia, Protogerov suppressed the Bulgarian soldier's uprising. After World War I, Protogerov was elected as one of the leaders of IMRO.
- In 1924, IMRO entered negotiations with the Comintern about collaboration between the communists and the Macedonian movement and the creation of a united Macedonian movement.
- Protogerov and Petar Chaulev probably signed the so-called May Manifesto about forming a Balkan Communist Federation and cooperation with the Soviet Union in Vienna.
- Later, Protogerov denied through the Bulgarian press that they had ever signed any agreements, claiming that the May Manifesto was a communist forgery.
- Shortly after, Todor Alexandrov was assassinated in unclear circumstances and IMRO came under the leadership of Ivan Mihailov, who became a powerful figure in Bulgarian politics.
- The result of the murder was further strife within the organisation and several high-profile murders, including that of Protogetov himself.
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