Yordan Piperkata

War Hero

Birthday August 23, 1870

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Macedonia

DEATH DATE Aug 22, 1903 (32)

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About

Macedonian-Bulgarian member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.

Before fame

He became interested in the Macedonian liberation movement after he met Bulgarian insurgents who had been involved in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising.

Trivia

He was killed during the 1903 Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising.

Family life

He was born into a poor family in Kozitsa, a town that was then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Associated with

He and Bulgarian author, Hristo Botev, were both anti-Ottoman revolutionaries.