12 Facts About Aleksandar Protogerov

Aleksandar Protogerov was a Bulgarian Army general, politician and revolutionary.

Aleksandar Protogerov was among the leaders of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

Aleksandar Protogerov served in Rousse, where he was the leader of the Bulgarian Officers' Brotherhoods.

Aleksandar Protogerov took part in the Gorna Dzhumaya uprising in 1902 and in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903.

Aleksandar Protogerov was a Bulgarian Freemason and held a leading position in the lodge where he was a member since the 1910s.

Aleksandar Protogerov captured the region of Stip, together with Todor Aleksandrov.

The Minister of Interior Aleksandar Protogerov Dimitrov ordered the arrest of the IMRO leaders, but they went underground.

In 1922, Aleksandar Protogerov projected the creation of an autonomous Macedonia, with Thessalonica as capital, as part of the Tsardom of Bulgaria.

In 1925 Aleksandar Protogerov was injured in the St Nedelya Church assault organized by the communists.

The faction led by Aleksandar Protogerov opted for continuing with the tactics of guerrilla warfare, while that led by Mihailov insisted on individual terrorist attacks.

Aleksandar Protogerov was assassinated under Mihailov's orders on 7 July 1928.

Aleksandar Protogerov is considered as an ethnic Macedonian in North Macedonia.