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a photograph of nikola andreev mokreni , today greece august 1911 mokreni , today greece 1879 nikola andreev.jpg nikola andreev -lrb- kostur voyvoda -rrb-
 nikola andreev imaro
nikola andreev -lrb- kostur voyvoda -rrb-

nikola andreev -lrb- 1879 -- 1911 -rrb- , known as alay bey , was a bulgarian officer and revolutionary , a member of the internal macedonian-adrianople revolutionary organization -lrb- imaro -rrb- , leader of a revolutionary band in the kostur region and a participant in the ilinden-preobrazhenie uprising .
nikola andreev was born in 1879 in the village of mokreni , then part of the ottoman empire .
after he finished the fifth grade of the gymnasium in varna , he studied for a while in the military school in sofia .
he left the military school and was attracted to the imaro by lazar poptraykov and toma davidov .
he was shortly a freedom fighter in the revolutionary band of marko lerinski during 1902 .
he was a recruiter in the region of kostur and then became a leader of a revolutionary band himself .
at the beginning of the ilinden-preobrazhenie uprising , he did n't manage to take over klisura on his own , but later with the help of pando klyashev , pando sidov , vasil chekalarov , manol rozov and marko ivanov took over the towns of klisura and neveska .
after the uprising , until the young turk revolution , he was a leader in the regions of kostur and kaylyari .
then he worked as a teacher in his village .
in 1911 , nikola andreev was killed by one of his friends because of jealousy .
