20th Century Revolutions

1.13 The Hanging of Vasil Levski (Bulgarian Liberation pt. 2)


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Vasil Levski, the "apostle" of Bulgarian Liberation, spread his revolutionary gospel throughout Ottoman Bulgaria as he brought the movement out of the emigre circles of Romania. Levski would then join forces with Hristo Botev and Lyeben Karavelov to found the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, laying the ground work for the April Uprising of 1876.

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20th Century RevolutionsBy Matt Payne