Revolutionary Dimitar Bakardzhiev

Dimitar Bakardzhiev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation, born in Belogradchik in 1880. After completing elementary and secondary school, he became a teacher. In 1903, he began teaching at the Bitola Secondary School.

In 1904, he joined the detachment of the Bitola voivode Sotir Atanasov and participated in the struggle in the Kočani, Kratovo and Štip regions. In 1906–1907, he was district voivode in the Demir Hisar and Bitola regions. Bakardzhiev married Elena Ivanova, whose sister Olga married Vasil Chakalarov.

During the First Balkan War, he served in the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps with Pandil Shishkov's detachment, operating in the Bitola and Florina regions. In the First World War, he led a reconnaissance detachment in Aegean Macedonia, taking it near the Kilkis region. Greek patrols attacked the detachment there, and Bakardzhiev and one of his men were wounded in the resulting battle.

He was brought before a British military court and then transferred to the British prisoner-of-war camp at Karaisin near Thessaloniki. Tragically, Dimitar Bakardzhiev was killed in Radoviš on 24 March 1919.