Dimitar Gyuzelov (, ) was a

Macedonian Bulgarian Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians (), sometimes also referred to as Macedono-Bulgarians, Macedo-Bulgarians, or Bulgaro-Macedonians are a regional, ethnographic group of ethnic Bulgarians, inhabiting or originating from the region of Ma ...

revolutionary and philosopher.''National Liberation Struggle in Macedonia, 1919 - 1941,'' the Collective IC "Knowledge", Sofia (1998), p 166-218 He is the father of Macedonian writer Bogomil Gyuzel and artist Liljana Gyuzelova, who between 1996 and 2006 worked on an art installation titled ''The Perpetual Return,'' dedicated to her father, his murder, and the stigma that the children of prominent Bulgarians who had been persecuted by the Yugoslav authorities after 1945 had to endure.

Biography

Gyuzelov was born in 1902 in Doyran, then in the Ottoman Empire, but after the destruction of the city during

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his family moved to

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. He finished Serbian high school in that city and then studied philosophy and Slavic studies in the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, during which time he was sponsored by

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; ; ), 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, it initia ...

(IMRO). In 1924 he joined the

Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization The Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization (, ; MMTRO/MYSRO) was a secret pro-Bulgarian youth organization established by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), active in Macedonia between 1922 and the 1940s. MMTRO ...

(MYSRO) shortly after its establishment and initial development, and like this organized wide activities by forming a nucleus of organization in many places in than

Vardar Banovina The Vardar Banovina, or Vardar Banate ( Macedonian and ; ), was a province ( banate) of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1941. History It was located in the southernmost part of the country, encompassing the whole of today's North Mace ...

. After the occupation of most of the Yugoslav

by Bulgaria in 1941, Gyuzelov became director of Radio Skopje. After the end of war, the Communist government of

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sentenced him to death, labeling him like many other prominent

Bulgarians Bulgarians (, ) are a nation and South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language. They form the majority of the population in Bulgaria, ...

as a "Bulgarian fascist". He was shot, together with

Dimitar Chkatrov Dimitar Chkatrov was Bulgarian activist in Vardar Macedonia. He was born in Prilep, then in the Ottoman Empire in 1900. Chkatrov began to study at the Bulgarian primary school in his hometown, but after the establishment of Serbian rule following ...

, in the vicinity of Zaychev Rid, three kilometers outside of

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.Църнушанов, Коста. „Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него“, Унив. изд. "Св. Климент Охридски", София (1992).

References

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History
''section.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyuzelov, Dimitar 1902 births 1945 deaths Bulgarian revolutionaries People from Dojran Macedonian Bulgarians Bulgarian people executed abroad 20th-century Bulgarian philosophers Executed Bulgarian collaborators with Nazi Germany Executed Yugoslav collaborators with Nazi Germany People executed by Yugoslavia by firing squad