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Rizo Rizov
Rizo Rizov ( Macedonian and Bulgarian: Ризо Ризов; 1 January 1872 — 6 January 1950) was a revolutionary from Veles and a participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement. He was a member of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, fought for the independence of Macedonia and was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) and IMRO (United). As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians from North Macedonia consider him an ethnic Macedonian and in Bulgaria he is considered a Bulgarian. Biography Rizov was a teacher in his hometown of Veles. He was a member of the district committee of the IMARO. In 1904 he was shot by a member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee. During the Balkan Wars, he and other former IMARO revolutionaries, such as Petar Poparsov and Alekso Martulkov, met with Dimitrija Čupovski, who proposed to send a delegation to London conference, which would demand autonomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veles, North Macedonia
Veles ( mk, Велес ) is a city in the central part of North Macedonia on the Vardar river. The city of Veles is the seat of Veles Municipality. Veles is the sixth largest Macedonian city with a total population of 43,716 (census 2002). The largest cities in the proximity of Veles are: Skopje - the capital and the largest city of North Macedonia - 54 km in the northwest direction, Štip 43 km to the east, Sveti Nikole 34 km to the northeast, Prilep 79 km in the southwest direction, and Kavadarci and Negotino 43 km and 40 km respectively to the southeast. Veles is on the crossroad of important international road and rail lines. For all these reasons, Veles is considered to have a good geolocation within North Macedonia. Names Throughout the history Veles had many names, out of which three are most important. Vilazora was initially the Paeonian city Bylazora from the period of early Classical Antiquity. The city's name was Βελισσός ''Velissos'' in Ancient Greek. Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMARO
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатрешна Македонска Револуционерна Организација, translit=Vnatrešna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija), was a secret revolutionary society founded in the Ottoman territories in Europe, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 in Salonica, initially, it aimed to gain autonomy for Macedonia (region), Macedonia and Adrianople Vilajet, Adrianople regions in the Ottoman Empire, however, later it became an agent serving Kingdom of Bulgaria, Bulgarian interests in Balkan politics. IMRO group modeled itself after the Internal Revolutionary Organization of Vasil Levski and accepted its motto "Freedom or Death" (Свобода или смърть). Starting in 1896 it fought t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provisional Representation Of The Former United Internal Revolutionary Organization
The Temporary representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization (Bulgarian:''Временно представителство на бившата Обединена Вътрешна Революционна Организация'') was a short-lasted organization founded by former members of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, created in 1919 on the wake of the Paris Peace Conference after the World War I in Sofia. The left wing of IMARO, disturbed by the organization's increasing domination by the pro-Greater Bulgaria ''Vrhovists'', founded this Organization, aimed to avoid the partitition of the region of Macedonia. It included Gyorche Petrov, Dimo Hadzhidimov, Petar Atsev, Hristo Tatartchev, Petar Pop Arsov, Mihail Gerdzhikov etc. The Organization issued a memorandum and send it to the representatives of the Great Powers on the Peace conference in Paris. There the Temporary representation advocated for autonomy of Macedonia as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar (river), Iskar river, and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Being in the centre of the Balkans, it is midway between the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and closest to the Aegean Sea. Known as Serdica in Late antiquity, Antiquity and Sredets in the Middle Ages, Sofia has been an area of List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic settlement of Southeast Europe, Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yordan Ivanov (literary Historian)
Yordan Ivanov was a Bulgarian literary historian. A full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1909, he was an expert on the literary and cultural heritage of the Bogomils. Ivanov is known as the discoverer of the manuscript original of ''Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya'' in the Zograf Monastery. He was the favorite lecturer of Yordan Yovkov. He was the author of several fundamental historical works revealing the Bulgarian character of Macedonia, and the author of many studies on his hometown and region. From 1920–1923 and again from 1927–1930, he was posted as a professor of Bulgarian language at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris, which laid the foundation for Cyrillo-Methodian Studies in France. Selected books * ''North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Shatev
Pavel Potsev Shatev ( Bulgarian and mk, Павел Поцев Шатев) (July 15, 1882 – January 30, 1951) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and member of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), later becoming a left-wing political activist. He was a self-declared Bulgarian and was jailed in post-WWII SR Macedonia as an enemy of the state. Biography Born in Kratovo, in the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia), Shatev graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. At first he participated in a group that made plans for a bomb attack in Istanbul. In 1900 the Ottoman police arrested the whole group, including Shatev. In 1901 the prisoners were deported το Bulgaria, after pressure from the Bulgarian government, where they consulted with members of a small anarchist group in Salonika, who agreed to blow up the local branch of the Ottoman Bank. In late April 1903, together ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capital city, capital of the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, the administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek language, Greek as (), literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the () or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Vardar, Axios. The Thessaloniki (municipality), municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 317,778 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonia (region)
Macedonia () is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time; however, it came to be defined as the modern geographical region by the mid 19th century. Today the region is considered to include parts of six Balkan countries: larger parts in Greece, North Macedonia, and Bulgaria, and smaller parts in Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo. It covers approximately and has a population of 4.76 million. Its oldest known settlements date back approximately to 7,000 BC. From the middle of the 4th century BC, the Kingdom of Macedon became the dominant power on the Balkan Peninsula; since then Macedonia has had a diverse history. Etymology Both proper nouns ''Makedṓn'' and ''Makednós'' are morphologically derived from the Ancient Greek adjective ''makednós'' meaning "tall, slim", and are related to the term Macedonia. Boundaries and definitions Ancient times The definition of Macedonia has chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Conference Of 1912–1913
The London Conference of 1912–1913, also known as the London Peace Conference or the Conference of the Ambassadors, was an international summit of the six Great Powers of that time (Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) convened in December 1912 due to the successes of the Balkan League armies against the Ottoman Empire in the First Balkan War. In particular, the conference intended to arbitrate between the warring powers as to territorial acquisitions, and also to determine the future of Albania, whose independence was proclaimed during the conflict. History An armistice to end the First Balkan War had been signed on 3 December 1912. The London Peace Conference was attended by those delegates from the Balkan allies (including Greece) who had not signed the previous armistice, as well as the Ottoman Empire. The Conference started in September 1912 at the St James's Palace under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Grey. Further sessions of the conferenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrija Čupovski
Dimitrija Čupovski ( mk, Димитрија Чуповски) (November 8, 1878 – October 29, 1940) was a Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer. Dimitrija Čupovski is considered one of the most prominent ethnic Macedonians in history and one of the most important actors of the start of Macedonian nationalism.''Macedonian Encyclopedia''. Skopje, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2009. ISBN 978-608-203-023-4. p. 1632-1633. Biography Dimitrija Čupovski was born in the village of Papradište (now part of Čaška Municipality) in the Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). Before Čupovski was born, his father had been killed by Albanian mercenaries. When he was 10 years old his village was burned, and he and his family settled in Kruševo, his mother's birthplace. After learning the painting trade, he and his brothers left for Sofia in search of work. In the capital of the newly established Kingdom of Bulgaria Čupovski worked during the day and visited the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alekso Martulkov
Alekso Martulkov (Macedonian language, Macedonian and ), born as Aleksandar Onchev Martulkov (, ; 23 October 1878 — 19 December 1962), was a publicist and one of the first Socialism, socialist revolutionary, revolutionaries from the region of Macedonia (region), Macedonia. He was a member of the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party and later the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) and the Bulgarian Communist Party. Simultaneously, he was a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, IMRO and subsequently the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United), IMRO (United). He advocated for the Independent Macedonia (IMRO), independence of Macedonia. Martulkov was also a member of the Bulgarian Parliament, as well as the Presidium of Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, ASNOM and the parliament of SR Macedonia. He is considered a Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian in the Historiography in North Macedonia, Macedo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Poparsov
Petar Pop-Arsov ( bg, Петър Попарсов, mk, Петар Поп Арсов) originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography: ''Петъръ попъ Арсовъ''; (14 August 1868 – 1 January 1941) was a Bulgarian educator and revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia, one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), known in its early times as ''Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees'' (BMARC). Although he was Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, and thought of his compatriots as Bulgarians, according to the post-WWII Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian. Early life He was born in 1868 in the village of Bogomila, near Veles. He was one of the leaders of the student protest in the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in 1887/1888 where the main objective was to replace the East Bulgarian dialect with a Macedonian dialect in the lecturing. As a consequence, he was expelled alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
