Yordan Piperkov ; , widely known as Yordan Piperkata was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary from the early 20-th century, member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). In Republic of Macedonia he is considered Macedonian.

He was born in Kozitsa

Drugovo municipality

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, Vardar Macedonia

Vardar Macedonia

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, Ottoman Empire to a poor family. He could not graduate at Bulgarian school in Bitola because his family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he met insurgents from the Kresna-Razlog Uprising

Kresna-Razlog Uprising

The Kresna-Razlog Uprising was a Bulgarian uprising against the Ottoman rule, predominantly in the areas of Kresna and Razlog in the region of Pirin Macedonia in late 1878 and early 1879...

 and other vojvods. This sparked in him an interest for the Macedonian liberation movement. Later Piperkata was active in the Macedonian Supreme Committee's actions in Ottoman Macedona. Afterwards he participated in IMARO and several times entered Macedonia from Bulgaria with different cheta

Cheta

Cheta was an armed band, organized by the Christian population on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, aiming at anti-Turkish activity. The cheta was usually led by a leader, called voivoda. The members of the chetas were called chetnik....

s. Piperkata was killed during the Ilinden Uprising.

Sources

• "Революционната дейность въ Демирхисаръ (битолско) по спомени на Алексо Стефановъ Демирхисарски войвода)", Съобщава Боянъ Мирчев, София—Печатница П.Глушковъ — 1931 стр.27-29
• "Илюстрация Илинден", година І, брой 3, стр. 13, 14