Nikola Gaitanekov

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Nikola Georgiev Gaitanek was a campaigner during the April Uprising of 1876, born in the village of Koprivshtitsa.

Nikola Gaitanek was born around 1843. He was a member of the Revolutionary Committee as a committee courier from 10 February to the defeat of the uprising on 1 May of that year. On 6 May he was captured by the Turkish army and taken to the city of Sofia, then sent to the dungeon in Philibe. In this prison, he spends 14 months in prison and is sentenced to unknown exile. From there he was taken to the Tsarigrad prison, where he was delivered to the fortress of the island of Cyprus to endure the sentence. He was released from exile on 28 May 1878 after an amnesty under the San Stefan peace treaty.

After the Liberation and return to his home village worked as a municipal cantonner. Nikola Georgiev Gaitanek died on December 4, 1901 in Koprivshtitsa.

He is the successor of the old Koprivshtchen family of Nikola Gaitanek and his grandson is the actor and theatre Georgi Gaitanekov (1938

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Participants in the April Uprising by Koprivshtitsa
Born in Koprivshtitsa
Died in Koprivshtitsa