HRISTO BATANDZHIEV

'Hristo Batandzhiev' ( ? Goumenissa / Gyumendje, present day Greece - 1913, Aegean Sea) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the founders of "The Committee for Obtaining the Political Rights Given to Macedonia by the Congress of Berlin" from which, later developed the IMRO known prior to 1902 as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC). He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia (see Macedonism).
He was a teacher in Bulgarian Exarchate school in Thessaloniki and Secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city during 1888 - 1911. Also Batandzhiev participated activеly in Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 he was active member of the ''Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs'' Party in Macedonia.
In Juny 1913 after the outbrake of the Second Balkan War he was arrested with many others Bulgarians from the Greek autorities with aim to be deported on Trikeri island. During the trip he was drown in Aegean Sea together with the Bulgarian Archimandrite Еvlogi.