Pere Toshev

Pere Toshev
Bulgarian Revolutionary
Born	1865 Prilep, today Republic of Macedonia
Died	May 4, 1912 Drenovo, today Republic of Macedonia

Petar (Pere) Toshev (Bulgarian: Петър (Пере) Тошев) (1865-1912) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In the Republic of Macedonia he is considered an ethnic Macedonian revolutionary.

Toshev was born in the town of Prilep, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He studied at the Bulgarian Exarchate's school in Prilep and the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. Later Pere attended the Gymnazium in Plovdiv, capital of the recently created Eastern Rumelia.

During the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, he joined the Bulgarian army as a volunteer. In the period 1892–1893, Toshev worked as a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher together with Dame Gruev in Macedonia. After joining the IMARO, he became an activist. In 1900 Toshev conducted the ceremony inducting the members of the CC of the Bulgarian Secret Revolutionary Brotherhood, including Ivan Garvanov into the IMARO. In 1901, Pere was exiled by the Ottoman authorities in Asia Minor. During the Ilinden Uprising in 1903, he led a detachment in the region of Mariovo. Toshev was killed by the Turks in Drenovo, near Kavadarci.

Anastas Lozanchev wrote about him in his account of IMARO's founding in 1894: „Pere had clearly defined ideas, with defined views on the revolutionary struggles, which no one else at that time had. He was an old revolutionary; he had participated together with other Macedonian Bulgarians... in the unification of Northern and Southern Bulgaria. “