Tancho Shabanov

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Atanas (Tancho) Velyov Shabanov (1845 Tancho Shabanov was born and died in Koprivshtitsa.

In addition to being a participant in the committee on the preparation of the uprising in the city from the time of Vasil Levski, Shabanov after the Liberation appeared as a chronicler illustrator of the events of those violent years.

Biography
Tancho is the youngest child in the family of the property shepherd Velyo. Sheep kept in the locality. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, the father and the children die, and Tancho and the mother are left alone. Forced by an accident, the woman sends her son to apprentice to a Koprivshte Abbey. With much work he managed to save money and in 1869 opened a cafeteria of .Bitko Tarnovo, where he became known as . Later the cafeteria and his father's home he turned into meeting places of the revolutionary committee.

In September 1875 Tancho Shabanov headed to Constantinople to explore the possibility of cooperation by the Bulgarians for the future uprising. After returning to Koprivshtitsa organized the production of ammunition needed for the rebellion. As a good master besides the made by Evlampia Vekilova mainly flag he produces several additional ones. On these flags are taken apart from the traditional scary lions are placed above them and initials L.B.S.I.S.

The day is coming. On April 20, 1876, they were known for the decisions of the meeting in Oborishte, the committee and Todor Kableshkov at the house of Rashko Hadjistoychev decided to announce the uprising.

The bells of the two churches in the city raise the population. Tancho Shabanov beats the bell of the temple St. Nicholas, the echoes of the Assumption of the Mother of God.

When the first days of the uprising passed, as Tancho wrote years later, on April 28th several people, the committeemen decided to kill the Turks who were hives, like those in Klisura, who were free until the city was lit. This was imposed because of the captured gypsy who was trying to contact the Turks in Strelcha and call Koprivshtitsa. The Gypsies are out in the area. Chardashko gully and slaughtered most of them, along with five Turks. Very few were killed with a gun or died of fear. Only one blowtorch was left alive with his family because he was a good man.

Later the Koprivshten revolutionaries were captured and imprisoned, headed by Todor Kableshkov, Panayot Volov, Georgi Ikonomov and Nayden Popstonov. One part of them was closed in the To this day, the inscriptions written in charcoal left by prisoners are kept in the basement of the temple. Orcho voyvoda together with Pavel Bobekov and Mancho Manev release the imprisoned rebels.

In the coming days, Tancho Shabanov took part in the march of the Koprivshte reading to the shopping villages of Staro-new (now Star