Mitre the Vlach | |
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 Mitre the Vlach c. 1903 | |
| Birth name | Mitre Pangiaru |
| Born | c. 1873 Konomladi, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Died | 22 February 1907 Zupamishcha, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Buried | Aposkepos, Greece |
| Allegiance |  IMRO |
| Commands held | Commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya |
| Battles/wars | Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Macedonian Struggle † |
Mitre Pangiaru, better known as Mitre the Vlach (Bulgarian: Митре Панджаров — Влаха, Macedonian: Митре Панџаров — Влаот), was аn Aromanian revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1]
He was born in 1873 in Konomladi in Ottoman Macedonia.[2] In 1901 he joined IMARO. It was there that he learned to read and write. In May 1903 his band was involved in a skirmish with the Ottoman Army in the village Rulja. During the Ilinden Uprising he took part in the attack on the Ottoman garrison in the village Visheni and in the battle near the village Pisoderi. In April 1904 he formed a new band. He was named commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya, where he fought with Greek bands on a number of occasions.
On 22 February 1907 his band was betrayed by Hristo from the village Shesteovo. Near the village Zhupanishta, he was heavily wounded and died shortly thereafter.
Mitre was buried in the village Aposkep together with his entire band.
