{{for|the Bulgarian pentathlete|Ivan Apostolov (pentathlete)}} {{One source|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person |name=Ivan Apostolov |image= Karakoy-Alibotush-Gathering Ivan Apostolov.jpg |birth_place= Kumanich, Ottoman Empire |birth_date = 1847 |death_place= Dolna Banya, Bulgaria |death_date= 1926 |organization = IMARO }} thumb|IMARO group photo in which Ivan Apostolov appears '''Ivan Apostolov''' ({{langx|bg|Иван Апостолов}}), known as Ivan Daskala (the Teacher), was a Bulgarian ''haydut'' and revolutionary, a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).
Apostolov was born in the village of Kumanich, today located in the region of Kato Nevrokopi, Drama regional unit, Greece, and known as Dasoto. For many years, he was a ''haydut'' leader in his own region. From 1877 to 1878, he participated in the Russo-Turkish War. In 1879, he was a member of the revolutionary band of Orcho voyvoda and participated in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising. During a battle, he was captured and exiled to Rhodes Island. In 1897, he was released as a result of an amnesty, after which he worked as a teacher in his village.
In 1902, after Apostolov entered the revolutionary organization IMARO, he became a leader of a revolutionary band in the region of Nevrokop. In the beginning of February 1903, he participated at the meeting between Gotse Delchev and the workers of the Serres revolutionary region. During the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, he participated with his revolutionary band in the attack on the Turkish garrison in the village of Obidim, together with Yane Sandanski, Mihail Chakov, Stoyan Malchankov and Nikola Gruychin. On 16 September 1903 he participated in the successful battle in Arami Bunar (Haydushki Kladenets).<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/obm1/6_3_1.html Силянов, Христо. Освободителните борби на Македония, том I, София 1933, с. 343]</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Apostolov, Ivan}} Category:1847 births Category:1926 deaths Category:People from Kato Nevrokopi Category:Members of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Category:Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Category:Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire Category:Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire Category:Exiles from the Ottoman Empire Category:Bulgarian revolutionaries Category:20th-century Bulgarian educators Category:Bulgarian people in Ottoman Macedonia Category:Bulgarian people of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)