Revolutionary Dimitar Todev

Dimitar (Mingyo, Mindzho) Lazarov Todev, also known as Kaloyan, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

Todev was born in 1873 in the village of Bansko in the Razlog region, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He belonged to the large Todev family of Bansko and was the grandson of Nikola Todev, son of Lazar Todev and brother of Maria Todeva. He completed the fifth class of the Bulgarian high school in Thessaloniki and joined the revolutionary struggle as a member of IMARO.

In 1901 he took part in the Miss Stone Affair and was subsequently arrested and brutally tortured by the Ottoman authorities. After his release he went to free Bulgaria.

In the summer of 1903, during the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, Todev served on the staff directing military operations in Razlog, alongside Kostadin Molerov and Anton Shipkov. He participated in the uprising and withdrew to free Bulgaria after it was crushed.

In 1912 he volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps during the Balkan War. During the First World War he was a soldier in the non-combatant company of the 3rd Thessaloniki Battalion.

After the wars he lived in various towns, including Pazardzhik and Sofia, working in trade. In 1923 he represented the Tatar Pazardzhik Macedonian Brotherhood at the unification congress of the Macedonian Federative Organisation and the Union of Macedonian Émigré Organisations.

Dimitar Todev died in Sofia on 16 March 1952.