Revolutionary Hristo Batandzhiev

Hristo Ivanov Batandzhiev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and active participant in the national liberation movement in Macedonia and the Adrianople region. He was born in 1869 in Gumendzhe in the Ottoman Empire, now Goumenissa, Greece. His father, Ivan Batandzhiev, was a priest and member of the Bulgarian community in Gumendzhe.

From 1888 to 1911, Batandzhiev worked as a teacher at the Bulgarian Boys' Secondary School in Thessaloniki and as secretary to the Bulgarian metropolitanate there. In October 1893 he was one of the six founders of the revolutionary committee in Thessaloniki that laid the foundations of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, he actively participated in the Union of Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs in Macedonia.

In June 1913, after the Second Balkan War broke out, Batandzhiev was arrested by the Greek authorities. Together with many other Bulgarians from Thessaloniki, he was put aboard a ship to be interned on the island of Trikeri, but died on the way.