Voivode Icho Voshtaranski

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Voivode Icho Voshtaranski

Icho Voshtaranski

Title: Voivode
Active from: 1899
Period: Ottoman rule

Dyado Icho, or Itsko, was a well-known Bulgarian revolutionary who served as the first voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation in the Lerin region. He was born in the village of Voshtarani in the Lerin region, which was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time of his birth.

Dyado Icho joined IMARO and in the summer of 1899 took command of a small four-man detachment. He operated in the Chegan Mountains around Setino until early 1900, when the detachment disbanded for various reasons.

During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Dyado Icho was a regional voivode commanding a detachment in the Lerin region. He operated around the Kaymakchalan post on Mount Nidze, working together with Lecho Nastev and Dacho Georgiev, a dynamite specialist.