Insurgent Banner used in the Razlovci Uprising

The Razlovtsi insurrection ( bg, Разловско въстание, ''Razlovsko vastanie''; mk, Разловечко востание, ''Razlovechko vostanie'') was a Bulgarian rebellion in the areas of Maleshevo and Piyanets in

Ottoman Bulgaria The history of Ottoman Bulgaria spans nearly 500 years, from the conquest by the Ottoman Empire of the smaller kingdoms emerging from the disintegrating Second Bulgarian Empire in the late 14th century, to the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878. A ...

, part of the

April Uprising of 1876 The April Uprising ( bg, Априлско въстание, Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally su ...

. The work on its preparation began in late 1875 in

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. A revolutionary group was created there, that took a decision to organize an anti-Ottoman insurrection. Basically, this group consisted of activists of the Association "''Bulgarian Dawn''" (Българска зора). The leader of the group was Dimitar Popgeorgiev. The preparations for the rebellion began in late 1875 in the village of Razlovtsi, guided by Dimitar Berovski and Stoyan Razlovski.

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and her daughter sewed the flag of the uprising. It was planned that the rebellion would cover Maleshevo, Radovish,

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, Melnik and later the

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. After the outbreak of the

April Uprising The April Uprising ( bg, Априлско въстание, Aprilsko vastanie) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units brutally su ...

, a number of arrests were made by the Ottoman authorities in late April 1876. Because of this, the revolt broke out prematurely on May 7 (May 19 in Gregorian), in Raslovtsi. Two revolutionary bands of about 60 people got the village for a short time, and then the rebellion spread in Maleshevo and Piyanets. However, the revolt was suppressed, and many of the rebels were killed or arrested. The survivors escaped into the Maleshevo Mountains, but no further action was possible.Freedom or death, the life of Gotsé Delchev, Mercia MacDermott
Journeyman Press, 1978, , pp. 41-42.

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