Ilyo Voivoda
ILYO VOYVODA ( Bulgarian Ильо войвода ) born when Ilya Markov Popgeorgiew ( Bulgarian Илия Марков Попгеоргиев * 28. May 1805 in Berovo , today in northern Macedonia ; † 17th April 1898 in Kyustendil , Bulgaria ) was a Bulgarian Hajduke , Voivode and freedom fighter during the Bulgarian National Revival . He was also known under the name Djado Iljo (Bulgarian Дядо Ильо / German grandfather Iljo). He was a member of the Bulgarian Legion (1862) in Belgrade and took part in the Serbian-Turkish War in 1876, the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878), the Kresna-Razlog uprising (1878-1879) and at the age of eighty on the Serbian-Bulgarian Part of the war of 1885. Since 2014 he has given its name to Ilyo Point , a headland of Clarence Island in Antarctica.
literature
- Constantin Josef Jiriček , Alexander Neroslawsky: History of the Bulgarians (digitized facsimile of the Tempsky edition, Prague 1876), Textor, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-938402-11-3 , pp. 552-575.
Individual evidence
- ^ For freedom and perfection. The Life of Yané Sandansky , Mercia MacDermott (Journeyman, London, 1988), p. 21st
- ↑ Ethnic rivalry and the quest for Macedonia, 1870–1913 , Vemund Aarbakke, East European Monographs, 2003, p. 56, ISBN 0-88033-527-0
- ↑ Freedom or death, the life of Gotsé Delchev , Mercia MacDermott, Journeyman Press, 1978, p. 39, 54. ISBN 0-904526-32-1
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wojwoda, Iljo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popgeorgiew, Ilja Markow (maiden name); Djado Iljo; Попгеоргиев, Илия Марков (maiden name, Bulgarian); войвода, Ильо (Bulgarian); Дядо Ильо (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian revolutionary, voivode, freedom fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berovo , today North Macedonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1898 |
| Place of death | Kyustendil , Bulgaria |