Mitre the Vlach

Mitre Pandzharov — the Vlach (Bulgarian: Митре Панджаров — Влаха, Macedonian: Митре Панџаров — Влаот) was а Bulgarian revolutionary of Aromanian origin of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.

Voivode Mitre the Vlach
Mitre the Vlach c. 1903
Native name	Митре Влаха
Birth name	Mitre Pandzharov (Митре Панджаров)
Born	c. 1873 Konomladi, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Makrochori, Greece)
Died	22 February 1907 Zupamishcha, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Lefki, Greece)
Buried	Aposkepos, Greece
Allegiance	IMRO
Commands held	Commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya
Battles/wars	Ilinden Uprising Macedonian Struggle †

He was born in 1873 in Konomladi in Ottoman Macedonia.^[1] In 1901 he joined IMARO (at the time under the name Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees). It was there that he learned to read and write. In May 1903 his band was involved in a skirmish with the Ottoman Army in the village Rulja. During the Ilinden Uprising he took part in the attack on the Ottoman garrison in the village Visheni and in the battle near the village Pisoderi. In April 1904 he formed a new band. He was named commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya, where he fought with Greek bands on a number of occasions.

The body of Mitre the Vlach and one of his men c. 1907

On 22 February 1907 his band was betrayed by Hristo from the village Shesteovo. Near the village Zhupanishta, he was heavily wounded and died shortly thereafter.

Mitre was buried in the village Aposkep together with his entire band.

References and notes

1. Perry, Duncan M. (1988). The politics of terror: the Macedonian liberation movements, 1893–1903. Duke University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8223-0813-3.