Hristo Batandzhiev

Christo Ivanov Batandschiew (also Hristo Ivanov Batandziev written, Bulgarian Христо Иванов Батанджиев; * in Gumendsche, today Goumenissa in Greece, † June 18, 1913 in Aegean Sea ) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, founder and member of BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonia - Adrian Opeler Revolutionary Committee, later renamed the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization ).

Christo Batandschiew today was born in the Ottoman city Gumendsche, Goumenissa in Thessaloniki in northern Greece today. Since Father priest and member of the Bulgarian community in the city .. was between 1888-1911 Christo Batandschiew teacher was in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. In October 1893, he was, next to Christ Tatartschew, lady Gruew, Petar Poparsow, Anton Dimitrov and Ivan Chadschinikolow, founder of the Bulgarian revolutionary committees in Thessaloniki, which stood at the beginning of the Bulgarian Macedonia - Adrian Opeler Revolutionary Committee (short BMARK ).

After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 Batandschiew was political in the party " Union of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs in Macedonia " ( Bulg Съюз на българските конституционни клубове ) active. In June 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, he was arrested along with other Bulgarians by the Greek authorities in Thessaloniki and put on a ship to be interned on the island of Paleo Trikeri. Move Christo Batandschiew was thrown together with the Bulgarian Archimandrite of Thessaloniki, Ewlogij in the Aegean Sea.