Revolutionary Georgi Hadzhimitrev

Georgi, or Goga, Zafirov Hadzhimitrev, known by the nickname Gevgeliyski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and Gevgelija voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

He was born in 1892 or 1895 in Gevgelija, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He received a lower secondary education and joined IMRO. In September 1922, he took command of the Gevgelija district detachment and began operating in the region. Under his command, the detachment fought numerous engagements, including those at Sermenin, Kayali, Smokvitsa, Radnya and elsewhere, most without losses.

In December 1924, Hadzhimitrev attended IMRO's Thessaloniki Regional Congress as a delegate and was elected a full member of the regional leadership. He subsequently attended the IMRO congress in Sarbinovo as a delegate in 1925.

In October 1925, during the Petrich Incident, Hadzhimitrev actively helped repel Greek troops, leading 200 militia members at Border Post No. 5 in the Belasitsa Mountains south of Petrich.

After IMRO split following Aleksandar Protogerov's murder in 1928, Georgi Gevgeliyski joined the Protogerovists. He carried out actions in Sofia, terrorising people close to Ivan Mihaylov, including Stoyan Kirov and Georgi Vandev's wife, and also attempted attacks against them.

Hadzhimitrev subsequently withdrew from active revolutionary work. During Bulgarian rule in Vardar Macedonia in 1941–1944, he assisted the Bulgarian authorities and led the Gevgelija counter-detachment, which pursued communist partisans.

On 6 November 1944, Yugoslav partisans captured Hadzhimitrev. On 9–10 April 1945, he and three others were sentenced to death by the Military Court of the Štip Region, and the sentences were carried out.