About Yane Sandanski Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, (Bulgarian: Яне Сандански), (May 18, 1872, Vlahi, Ottoman Empire, present-day Bulgaria - April 22, 1915, near Melnik, Bulgaria) was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the BMRC since 1895 (SMARO from 1902 and Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) from 1905) in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization. He is considered an ethnic Bulgarian in Bulgaria and abroad and an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia. The Bulgarianness of Sandanski is recognized by several Macedonian historians like Academician Ivan Katardzhiev, director of the Historical Sciences section in the Department of Social Sciences in the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the director of the Macedonian State archive Ph. D. Zoran Todorovski.