Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)

Vasil Levski

Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)

Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who is, today, a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Levski founded the Internal…

Internal Revolutionary Organization

The Internal Revolutionary Organisation was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded and built up by Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Levski between 1869 and 1871. The organisation represented a network of regional revolutionary committees which were governed by a Central…