 Nikola Andreev (Kostur voyvoda)

Nikola Andreev (1879–1911), known as Alay Bey, was a Bulgarian officer and revolutionary, a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), leader of a revolutionary band in the Kostur region and a participant in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising.Nikola Andreev was born in 1879 in the village of Mokreni, then part of the Ottoman Empire.After he finished the fifth grade of the Gymnasium in Varna, he studied for a while in the Military School in Sofia.