Voivode Kostadin Gyuredzhekliyata

Kostadin (Kosta) Gyuredzhekliyata, also known as Gyurdzhiyski or Gyurdzhikliev, was a Bulgarian hajduk and revolutionary and an active member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

He was born in 1842/1845 in the village of Gyuredzhik, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire but is now in Greece. After settling in Kovachevitsa, Kostadin Gyuredzhekliyata took to the field with his own detachment. During the Unification of Bulgaria in 1885, he operated together with Todor Tetimov in the Macedonian insurgent detachment formed in Dupnitsa. With this detachment, he first helped defend the Haskovo area and then took part in the fighting against the Serbs during the Serbo-Bulgarian War.

In 1912, at the outbreak of the Balkan War, Kostadin Gyuredzhekliyata volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps, serving in Doncho Zlatkov's detachment and in the Thirteenth Kukush Battalion.