Ivan Mihailov
Videos
Ivan Mihaylov Gavrilov, also known as Vancho Mihaylov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in interwar Macedonia and the last leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
Ivan Mihaylov comitaji
Mihaylov (second from the right) with other IMRO-comitadjis ca. 1924.
Ivan Mihaylov, his wife Mencha Karnicheva, and Marko Doshen at the grave of Todor Alexandrov in 1933
Mihaylov (to the left) with the former IMRO activist Pandeli Stoyanov in Rome (1969).
Independent Macedonia (1944)
Videos
The Independent State of Macedonia was a proposed puppet state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that had been occupied by the Tsardom of Bulgar
Ivan Mihailov
…Fascist Italy, Admiral Horthy's Hungary and Hitler's Nazi Germany. During the last stage of the war, he tried to realize IMRO's plan to create an Independent Macedonia but ultimately refused to move forward due to the lack of German military support and his reluctance to take a course that would lead to civil war…
Bulgarian postage stamps overprinted for use in Independent Macedonia. They are dated September 8, 1944 − the date of the proclamation of the state.