Revolutionary Petar Angelov

Petar Dimitrov Angelov, called Lyuben, was a Bulgarian officer and revolutionary, known as the Palanka voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). He was born on 29 July 1878 in Haskovo, Eastern Rumelia. After graduating from a non-commissioned officers' school, he served in the Twenty-fourth Black Sea Infantry Regiment, where he joined the secret non-commissioned officers' brotherhoods of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

In 1900 he joined IMARO and participated in an attempted attack in 1903. In the following years he became voivode in the Pirgopul Revolutionary Sector and took part in the fighting of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in Macedonia.

After the uprising was suppressed, Angelov returned to Bulgaria, became voivode in the Palanka district and led a detachment of twenty-five fighters. He attended the congress of the Skopje Revolutionary District and remained active in the liberation struggle.

During the First and Second Balkan Wars, he served in Yane Sandanski's detachment and subsequently in the 3rd Company of the 5th Adrianople Battalion. For his bravery in 1913, Angelov was promoted to officer rank. He also fought in the First World War.

After the wars, he joined the Federalist wing and supported the pro-Yugoslav policy of Stamboliyski's Agrarian government. On 9 August 1923, however, he was murdered in Sofia by Mito Dzhuzdanov on Todor Alexandrov's orders.