Vaptsarov, Ivan (Jonko) Prodikin (Bansko, Pirin part of Macedonia, 1861 – Sofia, 21. ⅰ 1939) – Dian of the Macedonian Liberation Movement, Duke, father of Nicholas and Boris Vapkrovi. Member of TMORO (1896) and Secretary of the Revolutionary Committee in Bansko (1901). Participant in the Ilinden Uprising (1903). After the uprising, he was imprisoned in Thessaloniki and Amnestied after the Young Turk Revolution (1908). He was a member first of the VMRO of Ivan Mihailov, and then to Alexander Protogov. Lit.: Stoyan Acisovski, Macedonian Makers (ⅹⅹ century), Skopje, 2002, 44; Encyclopedia Pirins End, and, A-M, Blagoevgrad, 1995. V. Nd. Nikola Vaptsarov
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Кириличен напис ВАПЦАРОВ, Иван