Mitre the Vlach

Mitre Pangiaru, better known as Mitre the Vlach (Bulgarian: Митре Панджаров — Влаха, Macedonian: Митре Панџаров — Влаот), was аn Aromanian revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.

Voivode Mitre the Vlach
Mitre the Vlach c. 1903
Birth name	Mitre Pangiaru
Born	c. 1873 Konomladi, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Died	22 February 1907 Zupamishcha, Monastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Buried	Aposkepos, Greece
Allegiance	IMRO
Commands	Commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya
Battles / wars	Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Macedonian Struggle †

Life

He was born in 1873 in Konomladi in Ottoman Macedonia. In 1901 he joined IMARO. It was there that he learned to read and write. In May 1903 his band was involved in a skirmish with the Ottoman Army in the village Rulja. During the Ilinden Uprising he took part in the attack on the Ottoman garrison in the village Visheni and in the battle near the village Pisoderi. In April 1904 he formed a new band. He was named commander-in-chief of the region of Kostenariya, where he fought with Greek bands on a number of occasions.

Betrayal and death

On 22 February 1907, his band was betrayed by Hristo from the village Shesteovo. Near the village Zhupanishta, he was heavily wounded from an unknown attack (likely to be connected with Hristo's betrayal) and died shortly thereafter.

Mitre was buried in the village Aposkep together with his entire band.

The body of Mitre the Vlach and one of his men c. 1907