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{{Short description|Revolutionary from Macedonia (1880–1909)}}{{More sources needed|date=April 2023}}{{Infobox Soldier
| honorific_prefix = Voivode
| name          = Vasil Adzhalarski
| native_name   = Васил Аджаларски
| image         = Vasil Adzhalarski crop.jpg
| caption       = Image of Vasil Adzhalarski.
| birth_date    = 24 December 1880
| death_date    = 14 November 1909 (aged 28)
| birth_place   = [[Ilinden Municipality|Adzhalari]], [[Kosovo Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] {{small|(now the [[Republic of North Macedonia]])}}
| death_place   = [[Skopje|Üsküp]], [[Kosovo Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] {{small|(now the [[Republic of North Macedonia]])}}
| birth_name    = Vasil Stoyanov Staykov<br>{{small|Васил Стоянов Стайков}}
| allegiance    = {{flagicon image|Flag of the IMRO.svg}} [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|IMRO]]
| serviceyears  = 1903-1909
| battles       = {{tree list}}
*[[Macedonian Struggle]]{{KIA}}
**[[Ilinden Uprising]]
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'''Vasil Stoyanov Staykov''' (December 24, 1880 &ndash; November 14, 1909) known as Vasil Adzhalarski, was a [[Macedonian Bulgarians|Macedonian Bulgarian]] revolutionary.<ref>Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893 – 1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 24 -25.</ref><ref>Георгиев, Величко, Стайко Трифонов, История на българите 1878 – 1944 в документи, том 1 1878 – 1912, част втора, стр. 475 – 481., „Българските революционни чети в Македония според доклад на А. Тошев до министъра на външните работи и изповеданията Д. Станчов“.</ref> He was a leader of revolutionary bands of the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization|internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization]] (IMARO) who were based in the regions of [[Skopje]] and [[Kumanovo]].

==Biography==
Vasil Stoyanov was born in 1880 in the village of [[Ilinden Municipality|Adzhalari]], in the [[Sanjak of Üsküp]] of the [[Kosovo Vilayet]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] (present-day [[North Macedonia]]). He received his nickname after this village, which is now known as [[Miladinovci]]. In 1901 he moved with his family to Skopje. He entered IMARO and realized a series of tasks for the Organization – he carried post, hid and purchased weapons – but he was arrested and spent two years in the prison [[Kuršumli An]]. He was released after an amnesty. In 1903, he became a revolutionary. At first he was an assistant of the band leader Sande Čolakot in [[Kumanovo]]. Later, he entered the revolutionary band of [[Bobi Stoychev]] and after that he himself became a leader, in the regions of [[Skopska Crna Gora]] and [[Blatija]], under the supervision of [[Dame Martinov]]. Adzhalarski distinguished himself from the other freedom fighters with the assassination of several [[Muslim]] beys who were suppressing the local inhabitants.[[File:Adzhalarski so skopskata ceta.jpg|thumb|230px|Skopje district detachment with its commander Adzhalarski.|left]]

In 1905, Vasil Adzhalarski became a regional leader of the Skopje region. From the end of 1904 until 1908 his revolutionary band conducted more than 10 massive battles with the [[Turkey|Turkish]] military. Adzhalarski also took several successful actions against the armed [[Serbia]]n propaganda. As a response to the murders of seven Macedonians from the [[Čair municipality|Chair]] neighborhood by a Serbian band, he killed 9 [[Serbomans]] in [[Brodec, Čučer-Sandevo|Brodec]], after which the Serbian bands ceased this type of actions. In February 1907, he burned the Han in the village of [[Sopishte]], that served as a base for the traverse of the Serbian bands to the region of [[Porece]].

After the [[Young Turk Revolution]] in 1908, he ceased to be a freedom fighter, but he was killed in an ambush by the Ottoman authorities in Skopje in 1909.<ref>Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978.</ref> His funeral was a reason for a massive protests by the Bulgarians from the region of Skopje against the authorities.
[[Image:Vasil Adzhalarski band.jpg|thumb|230px|Bulgarian postcard depicting the revolutionary band of Vasil Adzhalarski after the [[Young Turk Revolution]].|left]]
[[File:Izvestuvanje za ubistvoto na Vasilie Adžarlar.JPG|left|thumb|230px|A letter from the Serbian activist [[Bogdan Radenković]] announcing the death of the ''Bulgarian [[voivode]]'' Adzhalarski.]]

==Literature==
* [http://strumski.com/biblioteka/?id=772 "Две надгробни речи; След убийството на Васил Аджаларски; Подробности по убийството на войводата Васил Стоянов", публикувано во "Вести", книга 34, 35, 40, Цариград, 1909 г.] The Istanbul Exarchist newspaper "Vesti" about the murder of Vasil Adzhalarski by the Turkish authorities (in Bulgarian) .

==References==
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