Nikola Dechev

In 1900 he became a secretary in the detachment of Andon Kyoseto, and in 1901 Dechev was assistant voivode (military leader) of Hristo Chernopeev in the Gorna Dzhumaya region.

In 1902 Dechev was appointed voivode of Veles, where his detachment entered in April and set up committee networks.

[3] In the summer of the same year, he took part in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, trying to enter the interior of Macedonia with a new detachment in September.

On September 25, they were surrounded and fought a heavy battle against several thousand Turkish troops near the village of Lukovo (Kratovo).

More than 30 partisans were killed, including Dechev, and the rest withdrew at night to the border of the Principality of Bulgaria.