Revolutionary Sekula Oraovdolski

Sekula Hristov, known as Oraovdolski, was born around 1882 in Oraov Dol village, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now in North Macedonia. He joined the revolutionary struggle as a member of Pancho Konstantinov's detachment in 1904.

That same year, he and his comrades killed his maternal uncle, Father Churya, who had been serving Serbian propaganda in the region. Oraovdolski's detachment participated in the important Battle of Nozhot in July 1907. In November 1911, he became voivode of the Veles district, with Petar Lesev as his assistant.

In 1912, as Bulgaria and Serbia prepared for a joint war against the Ottoman Empire, Serbian detachments in Macedonia received instructions from Belgrade to reconcile with their Bulgarian counterparts. Sekula Hristov received an invitation from the chief of the Serbian voivodes in the Veles region, Vasilije Trbić, to meet the Serbian voivode Nikola Omoranski in Mokreni village. On 6 January, Sekula's detachment went to Mokreni but was ambushed, and the voivode was seriously wounded in the fighting. He stayed in Bistritsa village to recover, but after a betrayal by pro-Serbian activists, his pursuers attacked the village on 18 January, and Sekula Oraovdolski was killed.