Nikola Aslanov

Nikola Hristov Aslanov (Bulgarian: Никола Христов Асланов) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a worker of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).

Nikola Aslanov
Born1875
Lozengrad, today Turkey
DiedSeptember 24, 1905
Payas, today Turkey
OrganizationIMARO

Nikola Aslanov was born in 1875 in Lozengrad, East Thrace, today located in Turkey and known as Kirklareli. He worked as a merchant. In 1896, he became a member of the IMARO. In 1900 he was chosen as a member of the regional revolutionary committee in Lozengrad. In the same year, he got arrested by the Ottomans and imprisoned by the so-called Keremidchioglu Affair. Later Aslanov was tortured. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was exiled to the Payas Kale fortress in Anatolia, where he died in 1905.[1]

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