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Macedonian Struggle
The Macedonian Struggle was a series of social, political, cultural and military conflicts that were mainly fought between Greek and Bulgarian subjects who lived in Ottoman Macedonia between 1893 and 1912. From 1904 to 1908 the conflict was part of a wider guerrilla war in which revolutionary organizations of Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs all fought over Macedonia and its Christian population. Particularly over the national affiliation of the Slavic population which was forced to declare themselves for either of the sides. Gradually the Greek and Bulgarian bands gained the upper hand. Though the conflict largely ceased by the Young Turk Revolution, it continued as a low intensity insurgency until the Balkan Wars. Background Initially the conflict was waged through educational and religious means, with a fierce rivalry developing between supporters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Greek-speaking or Slavic/Romance-speaking people who generally identified as Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II In Yugoslav Macedonia
World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia started with the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Under the pressure of the Yugoslav Partisan movement, part of the Regional Committee of the Communists in Macedonia, Macedonian communists began in October 1941 a political and military campaign to resist the occupation of Vardar Macedonia. Officially, the area was called then Vardar Banovina, because the use of very name ''Macedonia'' was avoided in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Most of its territory was occupied by Bulgaria, while its westernmost part was ceded to Albania, both aided by German and Italian troops. Initially, there was no organised resistance in the region because the majority of the Macedonian Slavs nurtured strong pro-Bulgarian sentiments, although this was an effect from the previous Serbianisation#Vardar Macedonia, repressive Kingdom of Yugoslavia rule which had negative impact on the majority of the population.''"The warm reception accorded the Bulgarian soldiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheta (armed Group)
Cheta may refer to: * Cheta (armed group), a type of armed band of the Ottoman Balkans * Chaeta, part of some invertebrates' anatomy * Cheta (woreda), an administrative division of Ethiopia * Cheta, SBS Nagar, a village in India * Cheta language, a language of Brazil * Cheta Emba (born 1993), American rugby player * Cheta Ozougwu (born 1988), American football player * "Cheta", a 2016 song by Ada Ehi See also * Ceta (other) * Cheeta * Chita (other) * Chetan (other) * Kheta (other) * Chetniks (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotse Delchev
Georgi Nikolov Delchev (; ; 4 February 1872 – 4 May 1903), known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (''Гоце Делчев''),Originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography as ''Гоце Дѣлчевъ''. - Гоце Дѣлчевъ. Биография. П.К. Яворовъ, 1904. was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary ( komitadji) and one of the most important leaders of what is commonly known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), active in the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Adrianople regions, as well as in Bulgaria, at the turn of the 20th century. Delchev was IMRO's foreign representative in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria. As such, he was also a member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC), participating in the work of its governing body. He was killed in a skirmish with an Ottoman unit on the eve of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie uprising. Born into a Bulgarian family in Kilkis, then in the Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society For Macedonian Studies
The Society for Macedonian Studies () was founded on April 29, 1939, in Thessaloniki, Greece.Thorsten Kruse, Hubert Faustmann, Sabine Rogge. The purpose of the Society is to foster research on the language, archaeology, history and folklore of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia and to promote the cultivation of learning throughout the region. Its headquarters is also home to the Art Gallery of the Society for Macedonian Studies and to the National Theatre of Northern Greece. References External links * {{Authority control 1939 establishments in Greece History of Macedonia (Greece) Organizations based in Thessaloniki Organizations established in 1939 Macedonian Question ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ștefan Mihăileanu
Ștefan Mihăileanu (1859 – 22 July 1900) was an Aromanian professor and journalist. On 22 July 1900, he was assassinated by a Bulgarian nationalist, due to his criticism of pro-Bulgarian paramilitary activism over the course of the Macedonian Struggle. Biography Ștefan Mihăileanu was born in 1859, in Beala di Suprã, Ottoman Empire. An ethnic Aromanian, he was one of the first students in Ottoman Macedonia to attend classes in the Aromanian language. Due to the political turmoil that preceded the Macedonian Struggle, Mihăileanu's uncle brought him to Romania, where he continued his education in the Saint Sava National College. The Macedonian Struggle, a series of intertwined cultural, political and military conflicts between the various ethnic and religious communities residing in Macedonia, was to preoccupy Mihăileanu until the end of his life. He combined his career as a teacher and published the ''Macedonia'' newspaper between 1888 and 1889. Later on, he continued to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aksentije Bacetić
Aksentije Bacetić ( sr-Cyrl, Аксентије Бацетић, 27 February 1860 – 16 June 1905), known as Baceta (Бацета), was a Serbian secret agent and Chetnik commander in Macedonia. His surname has been spelled Bacetović. Early life Bacetić was born in the village of Kriva Reka near Užice, in the Principality of Serbia. He had red hair. As a youngster he joined the ranks of the People's Radical Party. He participated in the Timok Rebellion in 1882, after which he fled to the Principality of Bulgaria. He then went to the Russian Empire where he enrolled in the NCO school finished with the rank of junker. He returned to Serbia where his sub-commander rank was recognized. He translated works from Bulgarian into Serbian. Secret agent Bacetić worked as a double agent in Bulgaria, giving the Serbian command information on Bulgarian troop placements during the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885). He was caught and sentenced to death, but the Serbian side insisted on prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Babunski
Jovan Stojković ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Стојковић; 25 December 1878 – 17 February 1920), known as Jovan Babunski (), was a Serbian Chetnik commander (Serbian: ''vojvoda'' / ) during the Macedonian Struggle, Balkan Wars and World War I. Following the murder of his brother and nephew by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), he joined a Chetnik band and took command of Chetnik units on the Vardar River, where he and his men often engaged Bulgarian and Ottoman forces. With the outbreak of the First Balkan War he joined the Serbian Army and was wounded while fighting in the village of Strevica. During the Second Balkan War, he joined a Serbian volunteer detachment and fought at the Battle of Bregalnica. During World War I, Babunski and his Chetnik detachment fought Austro-Hungarian forces in the summer of 1914 and later fought on the Salonika front, where Babunski was ordained by French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey after he and his men capture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gligor Sokolović
Gligor Sokolović ( sr-cyr, Глигор Соколовић; 17 or 5 January 1870 or 1872 – 30 July 1910]) was one of the supreme commanders (''Great Voivode'') of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, Serbian Chetnik Movement, that fought the Ottoman Empire, Bulgarian, and Albanian armed bands during the Macedonian Struggle. He was one of the most famous Chetniks, and the foremost in Western Povardarie. In Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian renegade who switched sides, i.e. (sic) '' Serboman''. After murdering a local Ottoman lord, Sokolović went into the woods with some friends and formed a guerrilla unit which would target Ottomans. He then joined the Bulgarian revolutionary organizations of SMAC and IMRO, and fought throughout the wider Macedonia region. After the Ottomans' suppression of the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903, he, like many others, fled to Serbia. He was acquainted with Dr. Gođevac, one of the founders of the Serbian revolutionary organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milorad Gođevac
Milorad Gođevac ( sr-cyr, Милорад Гођевац, 1 March 1860 – 21 September 1933) was the organizer of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, a medical doctor by profession. Life Born in Valjevo, Principality of Serbia, he finished the First Belgrade Gymnasium and finished medicine at the University of Vienna in 1889. He was the organizer of the Serbian armed action in South Serbia and Macedonia and founder of the first Volunteer Board. The Chief Staff of the Chetnik Organization (the Serbian Committee) was established in 1902. The members were, among others, Gođevac, Jovan Atanacković (president of the Central Board of Belgrade), Ljubomir Davidović, Ljubomir Jovanović, Jaša Prodanović, Dimitrije Ćirković, Luka Ćelović, Golub Janić, Nikola Spasić, and Milutin Stepanović. Shortly thereafter, the Central Board of Vranje (with Žika Rafailović), the Central Board of Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonos Yotas
Georgios Yiotas (), best known as Gonos Yiotas (), was a Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia, Slavophone Macedonians (Greek), Greek chieftain of the Greek struggle for Macedonia, Macedonian Struggle. He is revered as a hero in the Pella region of Greece and ranks among the most notable participants of the struggle. He mainly operated around the Giannitsa Lake and cooperated with other well respected revolutionaries such as Stergios Daoutis, Alexandros Mazarakis-Ainian, Alexandros Mazarakis, Ioannis Demestichas, and Tellos Agras. He came to be known as the “Ghost of the Lake” (το Στοιχείο της Λίμνης). Early life He was born in the village of Loudias, Thessaloniki, Plugar in 1880, a village near Giannitsa. His father, Vasileios Yiotas was from the village of Kadinovo (now Galatades, Greece, Galatades) and had been a member of a local Greek committee. From a young age, he worked with his father and his brother Konstantinos Yiotas (also a future Makedonomacho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kottas
Kottas Christou () or Kote Hristov ( Bulgarian/Macedonian: Коте Христов), known simply as Kottas or Kote,, and often referred to as Konstantinos Christou (), was a Slavophone revolutionary chieftain in Western Macedonia during the Macedonian Struggle. A native of Roulia, Kottas served as its village elder and later was involved in anti-Ottoman rebel activity, killing several Ottoman officers. He was first associated with the pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and afterwards with the pro-Greek irregular Hellenic Macedonian Committee. He was captured by the Ottomans, convicted of robbery and hanged in Monastir in 1905. Life Kottas Christou was born in the Patriarchatist village of Roulia (modern Kotas) and was a Orthodox Christian. Kottas was a monolingual Slavophone, "Christos Kota of Roulia, a Slav-speaking kleft" "Deswegen führte der slawophone Grieche Kapetan Kotas oder Kottas" who spoke Bulgarian or Macedonian. He had a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlos Melas
Pavlos Melas (; 29 March 1870 – 13 October 1904) was a Greek revolutionary and artillery officer of the Hellenic Army. He participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and was amongst the first Greek officers to join the Macedonian Struggle. Early life and career Melas was born in 1870 in Marseille, France, as the son of Michail Melas who was elected MP for Attica and mayor of Athens and brother of Vassileios M. Melas, who was also an officer of the Hellenic Army. The Melas family was of Greek '' haute bourgeois'' descent. His father was a wealthy merchant from Epirus. In 1876, his family moved to Athens. He graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy as an artillery lieutenant in 1891. In 1892, he married Natalia Dragoumi, the daughter of Kastorian politician Stephanos Dragoumis and sister of Ion Dragoumis. In 1895, the couple had a son named Michael and a daughter, Zoe. He became member 25 of the Ethniki Etaireia. Melas participated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
