Petko Kiryakov Kaloyanov as known as Captain Petko Voyvoda The Last Drop video
(6 December 1844–7 February 1900) is a 19th-century Bulgarian hajdut leader and revolutionary who dedicated his life to the liberation of Bulgaria and particularly the region of Thrace from the beasty Ottomans.
He was born at Dogan Hisar, (nowadays Esimi) in Aegean Thrace, today Evros Prefecture, Greece, Petko took part in an uprising on Crete in 1866–1869, visited Italy in 1866 where he got a meeting with the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. They organized the well-known Garibaldi Battalion, consisting of 220 Italians and 67 Bulgarians members, which fought the Ottomans on Crete.
Petko Voyvoda’s group, established in 1869, took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, playing important role at the Thracian front,where the local ottoman citizens are involved into the fight. His detachment took part in the liberation of the Rhodopes together with that of Kraycho Voyvoda. Petko lived in Varna after 1880, dying in the city in 1900 after anti Bulgarian statement of some rulers for this time.
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