Petar Traykov

Petar Traykov Girovski was a Bulgarian Army officer, later activist of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

[2] After the split in the IMRO after the assassination of Alexander Protogerov in 1928, he sided with the wing of the Protogerovists and opposed the policy of Ivan Mihailov.

After the beginning of the operation of the Axis forces against Greece and Yugoslavia, he was arrested and interned again in a labor camp by the Bulgarian authorities (1941).

In early 1946, Traykov participated as one of the main prosecutorial witnesses in the trial in Skopje against the notable IMRO member Yordan Chkatrov and other Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionaries.

Traykov is the author of the book "The Nationalism of the Skopje Leaders", published in 1949 in Sofia, in which he criticizes the communist actions of de-Bulgarianization in Vardar Macedonia.