Yordan Asenov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bulgarian revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Sliven, Sliven Province, Bulgaria
About Yordan Asenov
- Yordan Hadzhipetrov Asenov (Bulgarian: ?????? ??????????? ??????) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a worker of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).Yordan Asenov was born in 1869 in Sliven, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
- He was a nephew of the legendary revolutionary figure, the voyvoda Hadzhi Dimitar, and an elder brother of Krastyo Asenov.
- He graduated from the Sliven High School and participated in the activity of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.
- After the split that happened in the SMAC on its Tenth Congress of the organization in July 1902, Yordan Asenov, as a friend of Gotse Delchev, supported the wing of engineer Hristo Stanishev, which supported the IMARO.
- Asenov was elected a treasurer of the organization, whose president was Hristo Stanishev.
- Toma Karayovov was a vice-president, while Peyo Yavorov and Stoyan Petrov were advisers.
- Yordan Asenov participated also in the preparation of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the Young Turk Revolution, Yordan Asenov withdrew from the active revolutionary activity and practiced his profession. He died in Sofia in 1936.
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