Voivode Mirche Atsev

Mirche Hadzhikostadinov Atsev, known as Orovchanets, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born in Oreovets village in 1859, when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. His father was killed by Pomaks in the nearby village of Sirkovo.

Mirche studied in Prilep but later became a shepherd. After his father's death, he joined Kone Pavlov's detachment, but was arrested and imprisoned in Thessaloniki's Beyaz Kule prison in 1885. He escaped and moved to Bulgaria.

While living in Sofia, Mirche participated in Stefan Stambolov's murder and spent three years imprisoned in the Black Mosque. He and his brothers Petar and Georgi joined the revolutionary activities of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

In 1899, Atsev led a Supremist detachment in the Nevrokop region and fought two battles. In 1900, he served in a terrorist detachment in the Prilep region that attacked Turkish wrongdoers. In 1901, Turkish soldiers defeated and killed him in Ulantsi village.

The voivode Marko Lazarov succeeded him in the region.