Voivode Dimo Dedoto

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Voivode Dimo Dedoto

Dimo Dedoto

Title: Voivode
Active from: 1883
Active until: 1895
Period: Ottoman rule

Dimo (Dime) Todorov, known by the nickname Dedoto, was a Bulgarian hajduk and revolutionary who served as a voivode of the Macedonian Committee.

He was born in the town of Prilep, which was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time of his birth. Dimo Dedoto began his revolutionary career as a hajduk under Voivode Georgi Lazhot. In 1883, he became voivode of a detachment operating in the Mariovo region. One of his detachment members was Yordan Spasov.

He took an active part in the Macedonian Committee's armed detachment campaign in 1895. In the early spring of that year, Dedoto came to the Prilep region with several detachment members to execute a number of local despots, including Rasim from Desovo. Dedoto's detachment passed through various villages, including Nebregovo, Prisad and Dupyachani. He also sought to establish a revolutionary committee in Prilep. Some local citizens were summoned to the Sivets area and joined the revolutionary movement. In March, near the village of Drenovtsi, when Rasim, the dervish who had a tower in the village, appeared, the detachment clashed with livestock-tax collectors and killed their leader, an event that became known as the Drenovtsi Affair. This led to mass arrests and convictions of citizens. As a result, Dedoto's detachment withdrew.

Dimo Dedoto was killed in battle in the Chifte Han locality in the Palanka region.