Mile Popyordanov

Mile Popyordanov (Bulgarian: Миле Попйорданов Macedonian: Миле Поп Јорданов) (1877-1901), born Milan Popyordanov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He was born in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia) in 1877. His younger brother, Yordan Popyordanov, was one of the "Gemidzhii" that launched the Thessaloniki bombings of 1903. Mile Popyordanov studied at the Bulgarian men's high school in the town of Bitola and later at the Constantinople Bulgarian Theological Seminary, before becoming an active member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. Afterwards he worked as Bulgarian teacher in his native area. At the beginning of March 1901 he arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria by his brother. In September, on his return to Veles, he was ambushed and surrounded by Ottoman soldiers. In order not to be caught alive, he killed himself. There is a folk song about Popyordanov ('Bolen mi lezhi Mile Popyordanov').