About Milan Stoilov
Lived 1881 – 1903 (aged 22). Milan Stoilov was a revolutionary and writer.
Milan Trajkov Stoilov (, ; 1881–1903) was a socialist revolutionary from the region of Macedonia. According to Macedonian historians, he was a Macedonian activist.
Biography Born in Kilkis, then in the Ottoman Empire, Stoilov graduated from the town's Bulgarian primary school and junior high school in 1892 and in 1895, respectively. In 1902, he graduated from the Bulgarian Theological Seminary in Constantinople. That year, he began his studies at the Saint Petersburg Military Medical Academy. In Saint Petersburg, he participated in the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Circle, which was an offshoot of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee. Stoilov was a member of the Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society and served as its secretary. He was involved in the third official act of the Society, which included documenting minutes of its 29 December 1902 session.
In 1903, he left Russia to join the Ilinden Uprising against the Ottomans. In July, he arrived in Sofia and presented himself as a volunteer at the Overseas Representation of the IMARO, from where he was assigned to a detachment going to Ottoman Macedonia under Nikola Dechev. Stoilov headed a medical squad. He was killed in a fighting in Orizari, near Kočani, on 5 September 1903. As a socialist-internationalist, he claimеd that he was not going to die for a certain nation or as a patriot, but as a revolutionary fighting for the good of humanity.
Stoilov also authored "The Kilkis Vampire" ("Кукушкият вампир"), a didactic novel written in Bulgarian.
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socialist revolutionary
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Milan Stoilov was born on 14 January 1881 in Kilkis.
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Milan Stoilov died on 5 September 1903 in Lukovo.
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Milan Stoilov was a revolutionary and writer.
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