Who doesn't know Chavdar Voyvoda,who has not heard of him?…And he was a fearsome hajdukfor wealthy people and Turks;but for the miserable poor peopleChavdar Voyvoda was a protection!Chavdar (Bulgarian: Чавдар) was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice.
Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks.
Chavdar was born in south Macedonia and headed a band of 300 people.
[2] One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian folklore and epic tales, Chavdar was immortalised by national poet Hristo Botev.
One of Botev's masterpieces, Hajduks, is about Chavdar, as are a large number of folk songs.