Hristo Chernopeev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hristo Chernopeev

Bulgarian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1868

Place of Birth: Dermantsi, Lovech Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1915

Profession: politician, military officer

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Hristo Chernopeev

  • Hristo Chernopeev (Bulgarian: ?????? ?????????) (1868, Dermantsi – 6 November 1915, Krivolak) was a Bulgarian Army officer and member of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia.
  • He was among the leaders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees. Chernopeev worked as sergeant in Bulgarian Army from 1889 to 1899.
  • Afterwards he became an active member of the Macedonian liberation movement and took part in the Miss Stone Affair in 1901 in Pirin Mountain.
  • After the suppression of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903 together with Yane Sandanski and Dimo Hadjidimov he set the base of the left wing of IMRO.
  • During this period he led a band in Kilkis' region and worked as a military instructor in IMRO.
  • After the Young Turks revolution in 1908 Chernopeev was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section).
  • From 1911 he became member of Central Committee of IMRO and during 1912 was leader of a volunteer regiment in the First Balkan War.
  • In 1913 Hristo Chernopeev was elected as deputy in the Bulgarian parliament.
  • During the First World war in 1915, he left the parliament and went at the front as a reserve officer.
  • Chernopeev was killed on 6 November 1915 in the battle of Krivolak with French troops.
  • He was buried in the courtyard of the church in Novo Selo, now a quarter of Å tip.
  • After the communists seized power in Macedonia after the Second World war, the nameplate on his grave was destroyed in 1945.
  • In November 2010 his mortal remains and the remains of ten other Bulgarian officers were ?xhumed by unknown circumstances.

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