Yordan Piperkata
Yordan Piperkov , widely known as Yordan Piperkata, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary from the early 20th century, member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. According to the post-WWII Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian.Life
He was born in Kozica, Ottoman Empire, today in Kičevo Municipality, North Macedonia to a poor family. He could not graduate at the Bulgarian secondary school in Bitola, because his family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he met insurgents from the Kresna-Razlog Uprising and other vojvods. This sparked in him an interest for the Macedonian liberation movement. Later Piperkata was active in the Macedonian Supreme Committee's actions in Ottoman Macedonia. Afterwards he participated in IMARO and several times entered Macedonia from Bulgaria with different chetas. Piperkata was killed during the Ilinden Uprising. After the death of Yordan, his assistant, the Bulgarian Army officer Dimitar Dechev, took his place. Dechev took avenge on the Turks for Yordan's murder.
