Revolutionary Trayko Kralya

Trayko Kralev Mitrev, known as Kralya (the King) and Barnichancheto, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born in 1874 in the village of Barnik in Mariovo, now in the northern part of the Republic of North Macedonia but then part of the Ottoman Empire. He joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, Trayko Kralev served under the Prilep voivode Krastyo Germov and under Ivan Kafedzhiyata.

In 1904 Trayko Kralev became regional voivode in Mariovo and fought Turkish troops and Greek armed bands. The Greek band fighter Petar Sugarev killed his entire family: his father, brothers and sisters, ten people in all. After this tragic loss, Trayko Kralev continued his revolutionary activity.

In September 1906 he entered Macedonia with Ivan Naumov-Alyabaka's detachment. After the Young Turk Revolution, he restored revolutionary activity in the Bitola district together with Georgi Kasapcheto and Alekso Stefanov.

From 1910 Trayko Kralev operated in the Gorna Dzhumaya district with Doncho Zlatkov. He died fighting the Turks in 1911 near Simitli, or on 27 March 1912 between Troskovo and Dabochitsa.