Ekaterina Panitsa

Ekaterina Panitsa (1884–1967), born as Ekaterina Ivanova Izmirlieva, was a Bulgarian schoolteacher and the wife of the revolutionary Todor Panitsa. She was also part of the Macedonian revolutionary movement.

Life Ekaterina Ivanova Izmirlieva was born in Kukush (modern Kilkis, Greece), Ottoman Empire, in 1884. Ekaterina was part of the big Izmirliev family, from which revolutionaries and intellectuals were part of. Her parents were Ivan Izmirliev and Rushka Izmirlieva (born Shishkova). Her father was a teacher. Izmirlieva studied in Kukush and then continued to study in Thessaloniki. She graduated from the Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki in the academic year 1899/1900 as part of the tenth generation of students. Afterwards, she worked as a teacher in the village of Prosechen in the Drama district in 1901, Thessaloniki in 1902, and the village of Gorno Brodi (modern Ano Vrontou, Greece) in the Serres district. In the academic year 1903/1904, she was a teacher in the village of Skrizhovo in the Zilyakovo region. After meeting the anarchist Yordan Popyordanov, she became close with the anarchist group Boatmen of Thessaloniki and their revolutionary views. After the Thessaloniki bombings, she was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of being close to Popyordanov and other Boatmen, but was soon released. While working as a teacher in Skrizhovo, she became a member of IMRO. In the following period, she worked as a teacher in the…Citește mai mult