Voivode Nikola Andreev
Nikola Andreev c. early 1900s
Native name	Никола Андреев
Nickname(s)	Alay Bey
Born	c. 1879 Mokreni, Monastir Vilayet , Ottoman Empire (now Variko , Greece )
Died	August 1911 Mokreni, Monastir Vilayet , Ottoman Empire (now Variko , Greece )
Allegiance	IMRO
Battles/wars	Macedonian Struggle Ilinden Uprising Capture of Klisura
Alma mater	Sofia Military Academy

Nikola Andreev (1879?1911), known as Alay Bey , was a Bulgarian Army officer and revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). He was the leader of a revolutionary band in the Kostur region and a participant in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising .

Nikola Andreev was born in 1879 in the village of Mokreni , then part of the Ottoman Empire . ^[1] After he finished the fifth grade of the Gymnasium in Varna , ^[2] he studied for a while in the Military School in Sofia .

He left the military school and was attracted to the IMARO by Lazar Poptraykov and Toma Davidov . ^[3] He was shortly a freedom fighter in the revolutionary band of Marko Lerinski during 1902. He was a recruiter in the region of Kostur and then became a leader of a revolutionary band himself.

At the beginning of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he didn't manage to take over Klisura on his own, but later with the help of Pando Klyashev , Pando Sidov , Vasil Chekalarov , Manol Rozov and Marko Ivanov took over the towns of Klisura and Neveska . ^[4]

After the uprising, until the Young Turk Revolution , he was a leader in the regions of Kostur and Kaylyari . Then he worked as a teacher in his village.

In 1911, Nikola Andreev was killed by one of his friends because of jealousy.

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• Кратка биография на Никола Андреев