BOTEV, CHRISTO (1847-1867), Bulgarian revolutionary and poet, was born in Kalofer, Central Bulgaria, on Dec. 24, 1847. When at school in Odessa in 1864 he became involved in the Rus sian revolutionary movement and had to return home, whence he was soon compelled to flee to Rumania. Here he lived in great poverty, devoting himself ardently to the Bulgarian revolutionary movement, of which his literary genius and talent for organization made him the leader. Believing that the nation would revolt, he invaded Bulgaria with 200 companions and reached Mt. Veslez in the western Balkans, but was there surrounded and killed, May 20, 1867, by regular Turkish troops. Despite his failure, he greatly influenced the Bulgarian national movement. His poems are among the purest lyrics in the Bulgarian language.
the name given to flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasitic in the bodies of hoofed animals. The best-known species are the horse bot-fly (Gastrophilus equi), the larvae inhabiting the stomach of the horse; the ox bot-fly or ox warble-fly (Hypoderma bovis), the larvae living under the skin of the back of cattle; and the sheep bot-fly (Oestrus ovis), the larvae parasitic in the nasal cavities of sheep. (See DIPTERA;