Revolutionary Hristo Avramov

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Revolutionary Hristo Avramov

Hristo Avramov

Active from: 1876
Active until: 1901
Period: Ottoman rule

Hristo Avramov, also called Arnautina, was a Bulgarian revolutionary known as a member of Botev's detachment.

He was born in Tetovo, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now in North Macedonia. He joined Hristo Botev's detachment. Zahari Stoyanov described him as "a Turkish Arnaut from Albania". Avramov had previously been a regular Ottoman soldier, but difficulties with his chaush, described as a soldier, forced him to leave and go to Romania. In Giurgiu he learned of the detachment being assembled and joined it. He escaped with several other men and reached Serbia. From there he went to Italy, where he worked as a stonemason.

In 1877, during the Russo-Turkish War, he joined the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps and served in the Fourth Volunteer Battalion.

After Bulgaria's Liberation he worked with an Italian engineer on the tunnels in the Iskar Gorge.

The exact date of his death is unknown, but he is thought to have died sometime between 1901 and 1918.