Doncho Lazarov

Doncho Lazarov (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Дончо Лазаров, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, voivode of Tikvesh and a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Later he became an insurgent leader for the Tikvesh Uprising.

Biography

He came from a revolutionary family, and their house was often inhabited by old Tikvesh anti-Ottoman hajduks. He was admitted to the ranks of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization at the age of less than twenty years.

After the First World War he moved to Bulgaria and settled in Petrich where he worked in the Permanent district commission. In 1921 he was elected mayor of Petrich. In October 1925, during the Incident at Petrich, he participated in the defense of Petrich from the Greek invasion. In October 1928 he was elected a member of a Commission for the reconciliation of the opposing sides in IMRO, formed by the Ilinden Organization. In 1930 he was elected president of the Macedonian charitable brotherhood "Hristo Matov" in the town. He died in 1950 in Petrich.