Todor Aleksandrov

Bulgarian fighter for freedom of Macedonia

Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov, best known as Todor Alexandrov (Bulgarian/Macedonian: ????? ???????????), also spelt as Alexandroff (4 March 1881 – 31 August 1924), was a Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, politician and teacher, who fought for the freedom of Macedonia as a second Bulgarian state on the Balkans.

He was a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO) and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO).

In North Macedonia, Aleksandrov, who had been previously dismissed by the post-WWII Macedonian historiography as Bulgarophile traitor and Greater Bulgarian chauvinist, has been recently added to the country's historical heritage, already as an ethnic Macedonian.

Though, this has caused controversy.The acknowledgement of Bulgarian influence on Macedonian history is highly problematic, because it clashes with the post-WWII Yugoslav Macedonian nation-building narrative, based on an anti-Bulgarian stance.