Revolutionary Tashko Tsvetkov

Tashko Tsvetkov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a Debar voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born in Sushitsa, in the Ottoman Empire, now part of North Macedonia. He was educated at the Greek Boys’ High School in Thessaloniki, where he met Rayko Zhinzifov and Teofil Avramov. After completing his schooling, he worked as a mason.

He participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) as a member of Georgi Pulevski’s detachment. In 1885, he joined Captain Adam Kalmikov’s detachment. In 1895, he took part in the Macedonian Committee’s campaign. During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising, he led a detachment in the Galichnik–Reka region.

Tashko Tsvetkov died on 24 February 1905 in Oleveni, in the Bitola region, together with his entire detachment, in a battle against Turkish troops.