Mile Pop Yordanov

Mile Pop Yordanov (Bulgarian: Миле Попйорданов Macedonian language: Миле Поп Јорданов) (1877-1901), born Milan Poyordanov, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was born in Veles, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia) in 1877. His younger brother, Yordan Popyordanov, was one of the Gemidzhii that launched the Thessaloniki bombings of 1903. Mile Pop Yordanov studied in a Bulgarian Exarchate's high school in the town ot Bitola before becoming an active member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In 1901, he was ambushed and surrounded by enemy soldiers. In order not to be caught alive, he killed himself. There is a folk song about Pop Jordanov ('Bolen mi lezhi Mile Pop Yordanov'). Today it is popular in the city of Veles.