Revolutionary Nikola Bozhkov

Nikola Bozhkov, called Troyachanets, was a Bulgarian revolutionary known as an activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

He was born in 1865 in the village of Troyatsi near Prilep, from which his pseudonym derived. A teacher by profession, he joined IMARO as early as 1894, taking the oath before Dame Gruev. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1896, but this did not prevent him from continuing his revolutionary work.

In 1901 he went underground and received Gotse Delchev in October of that year. In March 1903 he set out for Macedonia with a detachment of twenty-nine men, heading for the Prilep region. He fought in several engagements, including those in the Toplitsa woods and at Studenina.

During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising he was an independent voivode in the Prilep region. In 1912, during the Balkan War, he volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps and served in Mihail Chakov's detachment.

After the First World War he moved with his family to Sofia. In 1943 he applied for a Bulgarian state pension, which was approved. He died in Sofia on 4 February 1946.