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Mihail Gerdzhikov

1877–1947 · 20th century

Mihail Gerdzhikov was a Bulgarian revolutionary of anarchist sympathies and a leader of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation. During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising of August 1903 he led the insurgents in the Strandzha mountains, where they set up a short-lived self-governing administration later called the Strandzha Commune. Ottoman forces crushed it within about three weeks.

Mihail Gerdzhikov
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