Revolutionary Kostadin Nunkov

Konstantin, or Kosta, Nunkov, also known as David or Ognyanov, was born in Chirpan in 1877, when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1891–1892, he studied in Plovdiv but did not complete his education because of financial difficulties. He then worked in printing houses in Plovdiv and Sofia, where he lived with Peyo Yavorov for a time.

Nunkov joined the armed-detachment campaign organised by the Macedonian Committee in 1895. He left recollections of the uprising, published in Войнишка сбирка (Soldiers' Collection) in 1901.

Attracted by anarchist ideals, he joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). In 1900, he served in a detachment in the Gorna Dzhumaya region, and in January 1902 he was at IMARO's revolutionary station in Progled, investigating possibilities for attacks in the Xanthi and Ahachelebi regions.

At the Plovdiv Congress in 1902, he was assigned organisational work in the Gyumyurdzhina and Dedeagach regions. In December that year, he arrived in the Dedeagach region with a supply of explosive devices and dynamite. The following year, he made unsuccessful attempts to carry out attacks during the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising.

In 1904, he became a voivode in the Kumanovo region and fought Serbian armed propaganda in Macedonia. On 2 January 1905, he was a delegate to IMARO's Skopje Congress in Kneževo.

Tragically, on 8 February 1905, Kosta Nunkov died in battle near Kutlibeg village alongside his detachment and four militia members. He is remembered as a devoted fighter for the freedom of Macedonia and the Edirne region.