Atanas the Albanian (; ; 1880 - 1943) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
Biography Albanski was born in 1880 in Gorno Jelovce into an Albanian Orthodox family.. "Сите жителина Горно Јеловце денес се билингвисти, освен македонскиот го зборуваат и албанскиот јазик. [All residents of Gorno Jelovce today are bilingual, other than Macedonian speak Albanian.]".. "Gjithashtu ka fshatra që nuk shtrihen buzë lumit Radika, si: Dufi me 5 lagjet e shpërndara: Çejani, Ballaboni, Arqevishi, Brezoveci, Tojlani. Ky fshat me lagjet e shpërndara traditën, veshjen, folklorin dhe të folmen e kanë të përbashkët me atë të Rekës së Epërme. Fshati Jellovcë e Epërme, ka tradita, veshje dhe gjuhë e dialekt të përbashkët, edhe pse janë në distancë të largët me Rekën e Epërme. [Also there are villages that do not near the mouth of the river Radika, like: Duf with its 5 scattered neighborhoods: Çejani, Ballaboni, Arqevishi, Brezoveci, Tojlani. This village with scattered neighborhoods tradition, dress, folklore and dialect have in common with that of Upper Reka. Upper Jelovce village, has traditions, costumes, language and dialect in common, although are some distance from Upper Reka.]" He graduated from the Skopje Exarchate Pedagogical School and became an Exarchate teacher in Skopje . He joined the VMORO , and was elected a member of the Skopje District Revolutionary Committee by the Organization. He participated in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising as a commander of a company in the Tetovo and Gostivar regions. After the uprising, in 1904 he was elected secretary of the company of Duke Vancho Srbakov , and in 1907, he was secretary of the company of Ivan Naumov. After World War I , from 1928 to 1934, he was appointed plenipotentiary of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Petrich. He died in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1943.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 5.
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