[1] He was born in 1872 in the village of Negovan, Ottoman Empire (modern Xylopoli, Greece).

After the Keremidchioglu affair, he headed a cheta, which restored the broken committee network.

In April 1902 he participated in the Plovdiv Congress of IMRO, where he was elected leader of the Lozengrad Revolutionary Region.

Madzharov was a delegate is at the Petrova Niva congress, where he was elected as a member of the main Committee.

together with Petar Vaskov, Georgi Geshanov, Chanko Karabrakanov and Yanaki Milkov.