Anastasia Uzunova

Uzunova was born in 1862 in Macedonian Bulgarian city of Struga in the Ottoman Empire (today part of the Republic of North Macedonia). Her father was Georgi Chakarov [bg] of the old Struga revival family of Chakarov.^[1] Her siblings included Alexandar Chakarov [bg], Stanislav Chakarov [bg] and Slavka Pushkarova (née Chakarov) [bg], and she was the first cousin of the revolutionaries Hristo Matov and Milan Matov [bg].^[1]

Uzunova married Dimitar Uzunov [bg], Bulgarian teacher and fighter for an independent church, and they were both involved in the Bulgarian national movement.^[2] Their three children, Hristo Uzunov, Andon Uzunov [bg] and Angel Uzunov [bg], became activists with the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO, Bulgarian: Вътрешна македонска революционна организация (ВМРО).^[1]

From 1906, she lived with her son Angel in Kyustendil, Bulgaria.^[3]

Uzunova was the first female member of the IMRO. She later organised women in the IMRO in the Ohrid region,^[4] forming women's societies that supported the work of male revolutionaries and armed their detachments.^[1]

Uzunova died in 1948 in Sofia, Bulgaria,^[1] and was buried in the Central Sofia Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}